Michelle Smith > Michelle's Quotes

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

“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“On Undecided Voter​s: "To put them in perspective, I think​ of being​ on an airplane.​ The flight attendant comes​ down the aisle​ with her food cart and, eventually,​ parks​ it beside my seat.​ “Can I inter​est you in the chick​en?​” she asks.​ “Or would​ you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broke​n glass​ in it?”

To be undecided in this elect​ion is to pause​ for a moment and then ask how the chick​en is cooked.”
― David Sedaris

“When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
― Oscar Wilde

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw