Mary > Mary's Quotes

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

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”
― Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods and Other Stories

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

“Live life large.”
― Sarah Price

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina