16461 Quotes & Sayings

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. — Bruce Chatwin

I am no bird and no net ensnares me — Charlotte Bronte

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another. — Marc Guggenheim

Sometimes life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It's what you do with those second chances that counts. — Dave Wilson

Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which we are born and from which we can escape only with the greatest of efforts. — Milan Kundera

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine. — Julius Lester

Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85) — Deborah Levy

What's the matter with you? Huh? Huh?'
'Why can't you be normal?'
'Why do you wanna be so different? — Jerry Spinelli

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother. — Guy De Maupassant

All I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone. — John Green

It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired. — James Dickey

Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live, — Shilpi Somaya Gowda

It's amazing how dramatically life can change while your bedroom decor stays exactly the same. — Lauren Miller

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. — Stendhal