Mickey > Mickey's Quotes

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them; Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
― Gloria Steinem

“With that knowledge came the realization that I was absolutely, without any shred of doubt, profoundly in love with her.”
― Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.”
― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
― John Muir

“See the cat? See the cradle?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren’t. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we’re lucky enough to have a job at all. His wife tells us that we shouldn’t be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it—not because we think she’s wrong but because we know she’s right.”
― J.D. Vance

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici (by the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe)”
― Faust

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Sometimes dead is better”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Life sucks, then you die”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger