June 2011
14 posts
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“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
– J. K. Rowling
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“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to...”
– H. G. Wells
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“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”
– Ambrose Bierce
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“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And...”
– Andy Warhol
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“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist,...”
– Mark Twain
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“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but...”
– Virginia Woolf
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“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”
– Winston Churchill
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“I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a...”
– Muhammad Ali
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“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
– C. S. Lewis
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“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
– Lewis Carroll
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“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
– E. B. White
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“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and...”
– Emily Dickinson
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“The most sophisticated people I know — inside they’re all children....”
– Jim Henson
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“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people...”
– The Giver, Lois Lowry
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“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There’s an east...”
– Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow
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“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
– Robin Williams
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“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
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“The proper function of man is to live - not to exist.”
– Jack London
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“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”
– Lewis Carroll
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making...”
– A. A. Milne
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“We see but dimly through the mists and vapors
Amid these earthly damps
What...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.”
– Carl Sandburg
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“It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know...”
– Terry Pratchett
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“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”
– Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
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“It’s like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands,...”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“Every burned book or house enlightens the world, every suppressed or expunged...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.”
– Robert Frost
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“The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing...”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Little by little, one travels far.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
– Herman Melville
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“He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.”
– M. C. Escher
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– The Great Gatsby