Liz > Liz's Quotes

“Music is part of being human.”
― Oliver W. Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
― Charles Addams

“If someone breaks your heart just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.”
― Frank Ocean

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can't save time. You can only spend it, but you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

“No matter how many options we have, the real challenge is figuring out how to evaluate them.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“When it rains, the moisture in the humid air blankets our town with the smell of damp coffee grounds wafting in from the Nescafé factory at the town’s eastern edge. I don’t like coffee but I like that smell. It’s comforting; it unites the town in a common sensory experience; it’s good industry, like the roaring rug mill that fills our ears, brings work and signals our town’s vitality. There is a place here—you can hear it, smell it—where people make lives, suffer pain, enjoy small pleasures, play baseball, die, make love, have kids, drink themselves drunk on spring nights and do their best to hold off the demons that seek to destroy us, our homes, our families, our town.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

“Pabst stretches, paws reaching out to the two sleeping women next to him, lost in their separate nightmares.”
― Liz deBeer, Farewell to Emptiness

“Like cotton candy on a hot day,
they can’t shake it off.”
― Liz deBeer

“Just look at Mother Nature; she goes through the changes every blessed year.”
― Liz Debeer

“Just look at Mother Nature; she goes through the changes every blessed year”
― Liz deBeer, Farewell to Emptiness

“When I open the case and give the pendulum a gentle push, it swings three times and then stops, as if it has forgotten how to keep going.”
― Raymond Brunell, The Clock Forgets Me