Quotes on Quotes on Quotes

Here are just some quotes that I pulled out of my quote books that seemed relevant to our class, and I figured this would be a good place to share them! Enjoy!(:

Oscar Wilde
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

"The heart was made to be broken."

"Never love anybody who treats you like your ordinary."

"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."

Kurt Vonnegut
"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things."

"I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don't matter anymore."

Mark Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut's son)
" I was back to being polite, the well-tempered paranoid."

Relative to this class
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." -C.S. Lewis

"Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin

"Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing." -Hank Green

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think." -Horace Walpole

"Write hard and clear about what hurts." -Ernest Hemingway

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." -Marcus Tullius Cicero

"There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come along and pull them from their appointed slots. 'Take your time,' the books whispered to me in their dusty voices. 'We're not going anywhere.'" - Nicholas Carr, The Shallows

"There are two rules to success:
1. Never tell everything you know." -Roger H. Lincoln

"Time enjoyed wasting is not time wasted." -John Lennon

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chilton Pearce

"I've been making a list of things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." -Neil Gaiman

"I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges

"Paper has more patience than people." -Anne Frank

"I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." - Mark Twain

"Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less lonely. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances." -Jonathan Safran Foer

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." -Ernest Hemingway

"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at a later time. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger or your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it." -Margaret Atwood

"The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense." -Aldous Huxley

"The more I read, the hungrier I become. Every book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams." -Tatiana de Rosnay

"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book." -J.K. Rowling

"I can't imagine living a life that didn't involve knowing the difference between too and to." -Ben Adams

"When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." -Jane Austen

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair." -David Mitchell

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering- these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love- these are what we stay alive for." -John Keating

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." -Rudyard Kipling

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." -Mark Twain

"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough." -Ernest Hemingway

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different  immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." -Herman Hesse

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." -Ernest Hemingway

"A library is a hospital for the mind." -Unknown

"You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner. You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. You are every single second of every single day. So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. Let the words run through your veins and let the colors fill your mind until there is nothing left to do but explode. There are no wrong answers. Inspiration is everything. Sit back, relax, and to take it all in. Now, you go out and create something." -Jac Vanek