Big Books of Spring

James Minter > James's Quotes

Showing 1-25 of 25
sort by

    like
  • #1
    James Minter
    “The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ...”
    ― James Minter, The Hole Opportunity - Bronze Winner for Adult Fiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2013
    tags: calories, donut, obesity, oscar-wilde, sugar
    4 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    177577 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Jane Friedman
    “Marketing is not what lures a writer to this pursuit. Marketing is the adversary that arrives smuggled inside the Trojan Horse of one’s creative impulse.”
    ― Jane Friedman
    17 likes

    • like
  • #4
    “The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
    ― McLandburgh Wilson
    tags: perception, perspective
    268 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Spike Milligan
    “Everybody has to be somewhere!”
    ― Spike Milligan
    tags: humor, humour, trueisms
    4 likes

    • like
  • #6
    A.A. Milne
    “For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.”
    ― a.a. milne, The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
    280 likes

    • like
  • #7
    A.A. Milne
    “How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
    "You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: love, piglet, pooh-bear, winnie-the-pooh
    3873 likes

    • like
  • #8
    A.A. Milne
    “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: humor, idleness, inspirational
    5369 likes

    • like
  • #9
    James Minter
    “Oi, stop looking at my nethers. Be a gentleman, look away. When a gal’s in a predicament you should ‘elp ‘er out”
    ― James Minter, The Unexpected Consequences of Iron Overload
    tags: comedic, humourous
    2 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Anna Bayes
    “Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.”
    ― Anna Bayes
    tags: woman, writer, writer-quotes, writers-and-writing
    115 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Malcolm Bradbury
    “Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship”
    ― Malcolm Bradbury, Cuts
    tags: british-humor, humor, humorous
    0 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    13 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93663 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
    5657 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Roald Dahl
    “If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: calendar
    7 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Malcolm Bradbury
    “With sociology one can do anything and call it work.”
    ― Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People Is Wrong
    tags: humour, sociology
    17 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135695 likes

    • like
  • #18
    “Some people are so poor, all they have is money.”
    ― Patrick Meagher
    149 likes

    • like
  • #19
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
    25532 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
    ― Nicolas Chamfort
    tags: philosophy
    14985 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    5147 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Suzy Davies
    “His lone withdrawing figure blended anonymously with the darkness, Dr Raven's quick, light steps becoming gradually distant, drowned out by the clicking staccato rush of trains, the steady drip of rainwater, and the clock of a nearby church as it heralded the hour”
    ― Suzy Davies, Johari's Window
    tags: biography, memoir, romance
    8 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Suzy Davies
    “How tranquil it was, wading ankle-deep in flowers, pink snow, cascading, tumbling down, tingeing the earthen pathways”
    ― Suzy Davies, Johari's Window
    tags: romance
    8 likes

    • like
  • #24
    James Minter
    “A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment...”
    ― James Minter
    tags: author, entertainment, novel, rant, writing
    0 likes

    • like
  • #25
    James Minter
    “A laugh a day does you more good than an apple – read a humours book ...”
    ― James Minter, The Unexpected Consequences of Iron Overload
    tags: health, humour
    0 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From James’s Quotes

calories
donut
obesity
oscar-wilde
sugar
perception
perspective
humor
humour
trueisms
love
piglet
pooh-bear
winnie-the-pooh
idleness
inspirational
comedic
humourous
woman
writer
writer-quotes
writers-and-writing
british-humor
humorous
attributed-no-source
friends
friendship
misattributed-albert-camus
day
judge
plant
reap
seed
seeds
sow
calendar
sociology
books
simile
soul
reading
philosophy
biography
memoir
romance
author
entertainment
novel
rant
writing
health