Gail > Gail's Quotes

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“I've always loved high style in low company.”
― Anita Loos

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath