Amy > Amy's Quotes

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
― Woody Allen

“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
― Woody Allen

“Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
― George Carlin

“When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos...”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“... physical bookstores will become ever-nicer places to be. They are going to have more sofas, better lattes, nicer people working there. Good bookstores are the community centres of the 20th century.”
― Richard Brandt, One click

“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“I know more about Emily Bronte than anyone I know. I know enough about her family to have been a part. I’ve walked with her on her damp luscious lonely moors, watched her strain to write on miniscule scraps of paper, seen her hide her works from prying eyes.
I’ve brooded alongside her and participated in her taciturnity. Before her death at the ripe old age of 30, I nursed her from the things that ultimately killed her: tuberculosis with a side order of Victorian thinking.”
― Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”
― Dostoyevsky, Fyodor