Kathi > Kathi's Quotes

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
― Henry James

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“What would be of life if we didn´t have the courage of doing something new?”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
― George Harrison

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“Everyone wants to climb the mountain, but the big difference between those at the top and those still on the bottom is simply a matter of showing up tomorrow to give it just one more shot.”
― Gary Halbert, The Boron Letters

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Thomas Sowell

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ”
― Thomas Sowell