Emma Andersson > Emma's Quotes

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
― Ogden Nash, The Private Dining-room and Other Verses

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
― George Burns

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita