Quotes

Another idea given to me by Nat... some of the quotes here are hers, some are mine, so far anyway. If you have a favourite quote, from a book or whatever, anything really, just send it to me and tell me who said it (even if it's you).

"Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative."
~Unknown

"When you haven't laughed, you haven't lived."
~Malopia/Nat

"Life is like a rollercoaster except that you don't throw up at the end."
~Malopia/Nat

"Truth has many faces, and truth is like the old road to Avalon..."
~Morgaine in The Mists of Avalon

"There's a fine line between lunacy and genius which is defined by success."
~I have no idea, I think I saw this on a message board somewhere, but it's a great quote!

"True gold fears not the refiner's fire."
~Lao Tse (how am I supposed to know how to spell it?)

"Not to write, for many of us, is to die. . . the world would catch up with and try to sicken you. If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. For writing allows just the proper recipes of truth, life, reality as you are able to eat, drink, and digest without hyperventilating and flopping like a dead fish in your bed."
~Ray Bradbury

"Funfunfunfunfun..."
~Leaf, from The Realms of the Gods

"It is unwise to meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
~Gandalf, from Lord of the Rings

“Insights are always valuable, even if they only show you your duodenal ulcer.”
~Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances, V xciii

“Politics is when you sell your daughter to bandits and your daughter and yourself are then both set free.”
~Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances, XXXI ii

“Query all results when crystal gazing. You never know when someone has been looking over your shoulder.”
~Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances, IX ix

“Run far and fast when a wizard frowns. If he smiles, run harder. Above all refrain from laughing when he laughs. But if he weeps, you may join in courteously.”
~Ka'a Orto'o Gnomic Utterances, IX x

“When you obtain a talisman of great worth, you should exchange it quickly for a bag of beans. Protection is nothing like as valuable as climbing the sky.”
~Ka'a Orto'o, More Gnomic Utterances, XXXII il

“Xerostomia, otherwise known as extreme dryness of the mouth, has many causes but only one cure: the nearest inn.”
~Ka'a Orto'o Yet Another Gnomic Utterance, I I

“Yield gracefully when someone cuts in line. You can then stab them in the back.”
~Ka'a Orto'o, The Last Utterance: Volume 1, X xv

“Couldn't you just let go of that branch and come down here? I promise it won't hurt a bit...”
~Death

“Did you just call me fat? (grumble, grumble) You'll pay for that...but not today. I'll bide my time and then...then I'll think of something.”
~Death

“I see you wish to blow up this building. Need a match?”
~Death

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children."
~Benjamin Disraeli

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
~TS Eliot

"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
~Wilson Mizner

"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
~VS Naipaul

"A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar."
~Arthur Koestler

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
~Oscar Wilde

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
~Virginia Woolf

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
~JB Priestley

"The copy of the writing...was published to all people."
~Esther 8:13

"Establish thou the works of our hands upon us."
~Psalm 90:17

"You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story."
~Anne Lamott

"Writing a story is like climbing a rock face that has few handholds; you have to be able to focus a great deal of strength through small muscles, holding on, pushing up while leaning out, almost as if you were lying on the surface of the sea and trusting it not to take you under, and using your experience and intuition at once--doing what you know well while discovering as you do it how to work new surfaces."
~Frederick Busch

"When you've decided what your characters want and are striving for, you have the conflict that propels them forward."
~Olga Litowinsky

"There is more treasure in books than in
all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island . . .
and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day."
~Walt Disney

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
~Albert Einstein

"Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections."
~Gilbert Morris

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In soloing--as in other activities--it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
~Amelia Earhart

"Comparison is the source of all unhappiness."
~Soren Kierkegaard

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
~Aesop

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
~Mark Twain

“Stand with anybody that stands right...and part with him when he goes wrong."
~Abraham Lincoln

"A rich man is one who spends his life in kindness making friends."
~Johnny Gruelle

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges."
~Sir Isaac Newton

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
~William Shakespeare

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
~Carl W. Buehner

"The great doing of little things makes a great life."
~Eugenia Price

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
~Jessamyn West

"The worth of a book is what you can carry away from it."
~James Bryce

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go."
~Martha Washington

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
~C. S. Lewis

"Procrastination is the thief of time."
~Edward Young

"You [an aspiring writer] can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
~Dr. Seuss

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something--anything--down on paper. A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft--you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft--you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it's loose or cramped or decayed or even...healthy."
~Anne Lamott

"Herein lies the essential difference between fiction and nonfiction: Nonfiction tells us what is wrong and how to fix it; fiction holds a mirror up to our lives and allows us to apply the truth in an infinite number of individual ways."
~Penelope J. Stokes

“A word is dead
When it is said,
some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
that day.”
~Emily Dickinson

“A classic is something that everyone wants to have read, and no one wants to read.”
~Mark Twain

“Si l’ennui était mortel, le lycée serait un cimetière.” [If boredom was fatal, school would be a graveyard.]
~I saw this written on a table somewhere (in French)

“If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.”
~Nadine Stair

“The Great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
~Rita Mae Brown

“Life is ours to be spent, not saved.”
~D. H. Lawrence

“I didn't learn for years that you generally find yourself after you quit looking for it.”
~Peg Brown

“I had always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's what I've really learned.”
~Carol Burnett

“I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people say.”
~Ingrid Bergman

“I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.”
~Shirley MacLaine

“I learned...that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back- that the essence of life is going forward.”
~Agatha Christie

“It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.”
~Ellen Goodman

“All readers are authors, they just need to get a pen and paper.”
~Me, Julie

“The internet is a place where you can feel free to express your self and not worry about how you look, talk or act. You can be the perfect person, in your eyes and no one will stop you.”
~Me, Julie

"Whose House is this? What streetr are we in? Why did you bring me here?"
~ Bryant

"Oh God, here I go!"
~Baer

"I must go in, for the fog is rising."
~Emily Dickinson

"Adios sompadre!"
~Kit Carson

"I still live- poetry."
~ Webster

"My head my head!"
~Stevenson

"Amen."
~ Bigham Young

"Hail Mary, Full of Grace The Lord is with you Bleesed are thou amoung women and Bleesed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus,"
~Angel Gabriel to mary

"Write because you love to not because others want you to."
~Julie

"Everyone has a home, some don't have a house."
~ Englbright

"A back door guest is always best."
~ unknown

"A best friend is like a sistr, you fight but you always love each other."
~ Julie

"No matter how far away you are form someone you love, they are always in your heart."
~ Julie

“It is only when women take matters into their own hands that they are able to secure their rights and privileges as full human beings”
~ Cory Aquino Former (Woman) President of the Philippines

“I have been telling women that we have to do our best, because if we succeed, people say:" Oh! She's a woman!", and if we fail, it's: "Well, you know, she's a woman".”
~ Mary Jane Ortego, a Filipina who received a Scroll of Honour from the UN.

“The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium”
~Arthur Clarke, author of "2001: A Space Odyssey", adding that people who partied on New Year's Eve 1999 are welcome to celebrate again.

"Joren is sooooo pretty!"
~Neal (from Squire)

"I didn't like the shape of his nose!"
~ Keladry

"Life is a B-movie, it's stupid and it's strange. It's a directionless story and the dialogue is lame."
~Ani DiFranco (form the song Hell Yeah)

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