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

Eustacia Tan · Post by **Eustacia Tan** » 04 Feb 2016, 06:28

ellie_dp wrote:
“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

I love Terry Pratchett and all his quotes!

I'm probably always switching favourite quotes, but currently, I really like this one:

Fairy tales are more than true – not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten. (Neil Gaiman, paraphrasing G. K. Chesterton)

Tabikelley · Post by **Tabikelley** » 05 Feb 2016, 20:34

"I want something... I want Henry to say something, do something that proves this hasn't all been some kind of elaborate joke. I want. That's all. I am wanting" The Time Travelers Wife. I've read this book about 6 times

clbarkhurst2016 · Post by **clbarkhurst2016** » 05 Feb 2016, 21:00

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

Carrie R · Post by **Carrie R** » 07 Feb 2016, 13:53

A couple of my favorites:

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”―Eleanor Roosevelt (and Dr. Phil)

And

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”—W. C. Fields

dprice811 · Post by **dprice811** » 07 Feb 2016, 17:07

Learn to do what you want, then you can do what you like

- Irish saying. I read this a long time ago but it was not attributed to any person.

Also, I enjoy a few first lines of books. The best books have a great opening line, such as the classics below...

I am old now and have not much to fear from the anger of gods

- 'Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis

All children, except one, grow up

- Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit

- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

Michelle Stone · Post by **Michelle Stone** » 09 Feb 2016, 08:23

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world and at peace with myself

Nelson Mandela

anamcara · Post by **anamcara** » 09 Feb 2016, 19:25

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

~ J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

~W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

ellie_dp · Post by **ellie_dp** » 10 Feb 2016, 08:29

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I am the Messenger

Jdurand2 · Post by **Jdurand2** » 11 Feb 2016, 09:40

“I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil

j0123 · Post by **j0123** » 12 Feb 2016, 09:48

"I turned the words over suspiciously, like round, sea-polished pebles that might suddenly put out a claw and change into something else." - Sylvia Plath

Kiarrapreston · Post by **Kiarrapreston** » 15 Feb 2016, 19:09

"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."
-John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

sass-jay23 · Post by **sass-jay23** » 16 Feb 2016, 13:17

My favorite is from "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee is "Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
Amazing. What we consider Evil and Good often have a very thin line separating them.

HandyMom · Post by **HandyMom** » 16 Feb 2016, 17:56

" I have the heart of a young boy......
it's in a jar on my desk .

Stephen King

Gravy · Post by **Gravy** » 16 Feb 2016, 19:19

Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

Shaun David Hutchinson in We Are the Ants

Shahna · Post by **Shahna** » 18 Feb 2016, 11:16

The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.

T. H. White, The Once and Future King

Not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I love quotes very much. I like collecting them and writing them down everywhere. I simple line can bring back so many memories from a book, or a song, or a moment.