558 Grand Quotes & Sayings

But I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica. My — Stephen Chbosky

She had to defend the people she loved the best. — Jeanne Birdsall

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort. — Vladimir Nabokov

I couldn't shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human. — Julia Karr

His hope was that she would finish her damn book quietly and just leave; that one morning he would awaken and go up to the attic, and Anne Frank would be gone, and he could go on with his life, Anne-free. One hundred percent Frankless. Now with Less Genocide. — Shalom Auslander

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes. — Deborah Brodie

Old stories often turn out to be true. — Arthur Machen

Love is the thing that corrodes the mind and pushes it to do the unimaginable. Love is the thorn that barbs into your flesh and makes you bleed a slow, torturous death. Love is the prison that confines you to the unending darkness that absorbs chunks of your sanity with each fleeting second. Love is an immortal's worst nightmare. — Dahlia L. Summers

OMG! Is this true? [Marcus Bachmann] has a Christian clinic where he de-programs gay boys & girls! I'm gonna strangle him with my Boa! — Cher

I don't just want you to like me, I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you've ever encountered. — Carrie Fisher

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. — Meister Eckhart

I was glad Emerson was with me, and even happier that he had not suggested I remain behind. In this, as in all our adventures, we were equal partners. Few men could have accepted that arrangement. Emerson is a remarkable man. But then, if he had not been a remarkable man, I would not have married him. — Elizabeth Peters

Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead. — Colin Cotterill

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion. — Moby