Quotes

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
~Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it." 
~J.K. Rowling, "The Parting of the Ways," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

“Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.”
~Suzanna Collins, The Hunger Games, Spoken by Portia.

“Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true. Here is the place where I love you.”
~Suzanna Collins, The Hunger Games, Spoken by Katniss Everdeen.

A stranger Nearby is better than a far-away relative 
~Korean Proverb 

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
~Steve Jobs 

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"
~Steve Jobs 

“I don't know why it should be me - I'm not a very clever horse.”
~Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew – Chapter 12

“Ideas are easy. Knowing what to do with them is hard.”
~Richard Thompson 

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
~Samuel Johnson 


"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
~Winston Churchill

"The sun will rise and set but the rest is up for grabs" - Or something similar. 
~Nokia Lumia Advert 

"Im Very Motivated by the doubt of others" 
~Daniel Radcliffe 

"A dog that barks is never a good hunter"
~Another 100 quotes 

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination

and life to everything.”

~Plato 

"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."

~Lucille Ball

"The morality of an action depends on the situation" 

~Joseph Fletcher (1963) 

"In life, you either have to pay for something, or live with it"

~Sayed (Belal) Sais 

"Marge why are you crying, your not in any physical pain, the only type of pain a man can understand" 
~Homer Simpson 

"Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it"
~Max Brooks, World War Z 

"It's a lot easier to blow up trains than make them run on time" 
~Max Brooks, World War Z 

"Democracy is the worst form of government, expect for all the others."
~Winston Churchill 

"The words are only worth counting if your not gonna delete them afterwards" 
~Rasna Ghataurhae, the block, 10:45, 31/01/12

‎"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."
~Eames, Inception (movie) 

"Hipsters manage to attract a loathing unique in its intensity"
~Dan Fletcher, Times 

"...'Out there we've walked quite friendly up to Death;/Sat down and eaten with him, cool and bland -/ Pardoned his spilling mess-tins in out hand....' Precisely, Sassoon thought. And now we complain about that soup" 
~ Regeneration, Par Barker

"You miss 100% of shots you don't take."
~Wayne Gretzky

"I'm six foot seven, and bright green, people are going to stare at me no matter how I dress."
~She-Hulk 

"Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'."
~Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic 

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite" 
~Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being a Wallflower 

"After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!" 
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 

"She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it)"
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

"Don't parade your ignorance" 
~Coined by Mr. Wood 

"It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanour masks a complete madman." 
~The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins 

"With all that alcohol in him, it's probably not advisable to have him around an open flame," 

~The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins 

"You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope" 

~The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins 

"Implications are useless when on the topic of you being stubborn"

~Shelby, Over Facebook, 25/03/12, 14:52

"I am the enemy you killed my friend" 
~Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting 

"All right, not the perfect confidant, but definitely the best in a field of one 
~Mort, Terry Pratchett 

"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower" 
~Mort, Terry Pratchett

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid" 
~Albert Einstein 

"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in anyway a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is a fucking lunatic"  
~Stephen Fry 

"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual" 
~Ernest Hemingway 

"Eyes on the forest, not on the trees."
~Mockingjay, Suzanna Collins

"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart." 
~Mockingjay, Suzanna Collins 

"...if there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fish cakes" 
~Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson

"'This piece of fruit cake' - she waved it between bites - 'this cake doesn't need me to eat it to make it edible. It exists without me'." 
~Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson

"'It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever' he said. 'Have you thought of going into teaching"
~Mort, Terry Pratchett

"Here is some advice. If you want to keep your own teeth, make your own sandwiches..." 
~Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson

"my mother had painted the white roses red and now claimed they grew that way"
~Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson

"She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in paris."
~Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

"Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? Herpes does that too."
~Warm Bodies, Isaac Marion

"All alone - for you cannot count on friends that are all packed up in barrels." 
~The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien 

"They can keep heaven. When I die, I'd rather go to middle earth." 
~George R.R. Martin 

"Many people would sooner die that think. In fact, they do." 
~Bertrand Russell