Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[kingzeppelin]

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”


Marilyn Monroe

[kingzeppelin]

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him!


Winston Churchill

[randallFlaggfan1]

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

-Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

[kingzeppelin]

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.


Mark Twain

[blunthead]

Ostermeyer is a long and gallumphing name. By changing it to Olin via global replace, I was able to shorten my story by about fifteen lines at a single stroke. Also, by the time I finished "1408," I had realized it was probably going to be part of an audio collection. I would read the stories myself and didn't want to sit there in the little recording booth, saying Ostermeyer, Ostermeyer, Ostermeyer all day long. So I changed it. - Stephen King [On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (second postscript)]

[randallFlaggfan1]

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”

-Gary Paulsen

[kingzeppelin]

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”


Jimi Hendrix

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey: Night Flight/Wind Sand & Stars/Flight to Arras

[kingzeppelin]

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost

[blunthead]

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive, rather than combative or corrective. ― Gretchen Rubin