Guy Portman > Guy's Quotes

“... her skills more akin to the baking of macaroons than solving the complexities of the universe.”
― Guy Portman, Charles Middleworth

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

“Well if being related by internet marriage is family, I suppose we are.”
― Guy Portman, Charles Middleworth

“She only wears black now and she’s umm; well she’s threatening to become a vampire.”
― Guy Portman, Charles Middleworth

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
― Marilyn Manson

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”
― Marilyn Manson

“The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.”
― Rachel Abbott, Only the Innocent

“One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.”
― J. A. Konrath

“If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”
― Joe Konrath

“Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don’t give you a reason to be in this lane.”
― J. A. Konrath

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
― Truman Capote

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
room was like sunlight to me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
― Dorothy Parker

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.”
― Danny Wallace, Yes Man

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates