What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

Amandagirl · Post by **Amandagirl** » 15 Jan 2016, 03:33

Alexis Jones wrote:Living a 'perfect' life is like watching television in black and white: you take out all the color

I love this quote in Alexis Jones' book I Am That Girl!! It reminds me that it's ok to make mistakes - life is more fun that way!!

tracey clark · Post by **tracey clark** » 15 Jan 2016, 12:58

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour

-William blake

pjswink · Post by **pjswink** » 16 Jan 2016, 20:06

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

DarkestbeforeDawn · Post by **DarkestbeforeDawn** » 18 Jan 2016, 12:54

tracey clark wrote:To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour

-William blake

Although this is a poem, not really a quote. It's still a really good poem

dipdrops2003 · Post by **dipdrops2003** » 18 Jan 2016, 13:29

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursure them.

-Walt Disney

JilliChilli2 · Post by **JilliChilli2** » 21 Jan 2016, 00:02

I was Created to Create

-- 21 Jan 2016, 00:04 --

Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.
-Lewis Carrol

HeroicCaveman · Post by **HeroicCaveman** » 26 Jan 2016, 07:47

I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Sir Terry Pratchett

ifonly · Post by **ifonly** » 27 Jan 2016, 07:55

"Death and taxes and childbirth! There is never a convenient time for any of them"
Scarlett O'Hara on Gone Whit The Wind.

Betty Adams · Post by **Betty Adams** » 30 Jan 2016, 21:36

Someone was trying to kill him.
That was the first sentence of the first pulp Western I ever read. Louis L'amour certainly had a way of captivating his audience. "The Man Called Noon" was a fun read and really got me hooked on that author.

saturday+deviant · Post by **saturday+deviant** » 30 Jan 2016, 23:08

We all have a tiny whispery voice inside of us, but the bad ones are usually at a lower register and come through a little clearer.

Amy Poehler, Yes Please page 8.

traudilynn79 · Post by **traudilynn79** » 31 Jan 2016, 12:53

"You're braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think," Christopher Robin ro Winnie the Pooh.

EmilyKate · Post by **EmilyKate** » 01 Feb 2016, 14:09

One quote that I find pops up in everyday life quite a lot is "the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry" - “To a Mouse,” by Robert Burns

the_rural_juror · Post by **the_rural_juror** » 01 Feb 2016, 17:02

Just a few favorites:

"Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life."

-Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea"

-E.E. Cummings, Maggie and Milly and Molly and May

"It’s like deja vu, but instead of the sensation that this has happened before, I’m suffused with the awareness that this is happening for the first time."

-Miranda July, It Chooses You

"Amid this peaceful scene of nature, sky and ocean rivaled each other in tranquility, the sea offering to the orbs of night the finest mirror they could ever have in which to reflect their image."

"Captain Nemo pointed with his hand to the enormous heap of oysters; and I could well understand that this mine was inexhaustible, for Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction."

"Ah! sir, live — live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognize no masters! There I am free!"

-Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

"Stories, Plato knew, were much more than entertainment. Used properly, they could be powerful tools."
-Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis

"She had, finally, spun herself fully into being."

"They watched the peacock walk out of the shadow of a tree, then its lugubrious flight up to its favorite perch on the roof, where it stood and surveyed the decayed kingdom below."

"Ifemelu stood by the window while Aunty Uju sat at the table drinking orange juice and airing her grievances like jewels. It
had become a routine of Ifemelu's visits: Aunty Uju collected all her dissatisfactions in a silk purse, nursing them, polishing them, and then on the Saturday of Ifemelu's visit, while Bartholomew was out and Dike upstairs, she would spill them out on the table, and turn each one this way and that, to catch the light."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

traudilynn79 · Post by **traudilynn79** » 01 Feb 2016, 20:32

The last one is beautiful.

ellie_dp · Post by **ellie_dp** » 02 Feb 2016, 04:06

"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
- A.A.Milne, Winnie The Pooh

“The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals