Quotes

[Emma]

Good idea for a thread Fiona!

Oh, I have so many quotes from

GUESS!

JUST GUESS!

The Gemma Doyle Trilogy that I love. Some aren't even on the site (although I really need to add them).

[Connie]

I have way too many!!! I used to work for a company that published motivational/inspiration gift books and greeting cards. Not all of these are ones we used, but most are from my goodreads profile:

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives"
— Ayn Rand

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. "
— Ayn Rand

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
— Thomas Jefferson

"We are all born originals---why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young

"I am always doing things I can’t do---that’s how I get to do them."
- Pablo Picasso

"Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work."
- Mark Twain

[Catamorandi]

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."
-Eleanor Roosevelt


I feel inferior a lot, so this quote helps me think about my part in feeling that inferiority. I realize that I need to start thinking positively again, or I will just go in a downward spiral to nowhere.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner)]

I have quite a few...and have added a TON because of EL&IC..so i won't give those away because ppl are still reading the book..

other than that..

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww'"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
— Jack Kerouac another one from on the road.

i promise..last kerouac one..

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?- it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."


"What really knocks me out is a book, when you're all done reading it, you wished the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

i have a few others..maybe i'll post later.

[Connie]

Operandi: I LOVE Eleanor Roosevelt quotes! We had a lot of hers in our books. Truly inspiring. Sometimes I would help input quotes into our company's database and I would be in a better mood just from typing them.

I used to have a problem feeling inferior, too. Matter of fact my boss put this quote on one of the holiday gifts he gave to me:

"No one can figure out your worth but you."
- Pearl Bailey

It's been a few years but I think I finally figured it out. :-)

[Catamorandi]

That's a great quote also. I'll have to keep it somewhere by my desk. Thanks for telling me about it, Connie.

[Petra X]

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."


"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."


Erica Jong.

[Atishay]

I love the poem in There and Back Again by JRR Tolkien. I'm posting it here:

"Roads Go Ever On
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.

Roads go ever ever on,
Under cloud and under star.
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen,
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green,
And trees and hills they long have known.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone.
Let others follow, if they can!
Let them a journety new begin.
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet."

Its my favorite poem.

[Connie]

Oooh, Petra, that's a great one that I hadn't seen before!

[Catamorandi]

I love that quote, Petra. Another one I will have to put on my desk.

[Emma]

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

This is one of the NOT Libba Bray quotes. Hehe.

[Emma]

I love this one:

"Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying: Hey I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?"
— John Green

[Jeane]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughful comitted citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead


''Eventually should be now''

[Leila]

Oh my goodness, I have several! I am a quote-freak ;) Many of the quotes I like aren't even listed here at goodreads :) But my absolute favourites are from the novles of Harry Potter series (JK Rowling) and the God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy). I guess the reason why I love these most particularly is because I can identify with them.

"Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

"Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening"
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

"And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

"The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. THAT is their mystery and magic."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

"It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

Seriously, there are so many good quotes from that novel! I almost want to re-read it so I can mark them and collect them here at goodreads :)

Then from Harry Potter, I have three absolute favourites:

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling
Oh how I will remember that.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world."
— J.K. Rowling

"I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishiong his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5))
I felt as if I was bleeding when I read that...

and then some others:

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. "
— Ian McEwan (Atonement: A Novel)

"No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy."
— Paulo Coelho (The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (P.S.))

Then when it comes to poetry, this is my favourite (it's part 4 out of 52 of Song of Myself)

"Trippers and askers surround me,
People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and
city I live in, or the nation,
The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old
and new,
My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,
The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss
or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,
Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news,
the fitful events;
These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
But they are not the Me myself.

Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,
Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next,
Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.

Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with
linguists and contenders,
I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait. "
— Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)

wow, this is a lot! As I said, I'm a quote-freak ;)

[Petra X]

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

[Marc]

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will.

Lois McMaster Bujold

[Petra X]

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers

Woody Allen

[A.J.]

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

-- Jim Harrison

[Jeane]

'People say that life is the thing but I prefer reading.'