Mik > Mik's Quotes

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.”
― Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

“Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it.”
― Mik Everett, Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand

“But only people you care about can hurt you. That doesn't mean I love her. Hate is not the opposite of love; not caring is. And as long as I hate her, I still care about her, and she has the power to hurt me. To make me hate myself.”
― Mik Everett, Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”
― Mik Everett

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Cesar A. Cruz

“This is how I want to be remembered: In spite of everything, she really tried to be nice and believed other people did too.

You can go ahead and put that on my gravestone.”
― Mik Everett

“There's a fine line between self-preservation and mummification.”
― Mik Everett, Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for.”
― Mik Everett