Mylene > Mylene's Quotes

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
― Terry Pratchett

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“There is a community of the spirit.

Join it, and feel the delight

of walking in the noisy street

and being the noise.

Drink all your passion,

and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes


to see with the other eye”
― Rumi

“The city takes a breath on Sunday. Of all that’s lost with the pursuit of what’s next, I hope we don’t lose that…”
― Hawksley Workman, Hawksley Burns For Isadora

“Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
― Guy Billout

“Sometimes I put on a black scuba suit and go walking on the beach, to relax. If I could, I’d sleep in a scuba suit—on a waterbed. Not that I actually ever get in the ocean. Too many dangerous things in the water, like barracudas, sharks, and of course there are many lawyers here on the east coast.”
― Jarod Kintz, Gosh, I probably shouldn't publish this.

“I explore my subconscious the way Cousteau explored the sea: with a scuba tank and a smile.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in over his head.”
― Laren Grey Umphlett, The Power of Perception

“If you are falling....dive.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Dive deep. Drown willingly”
― Ted Dekker, White: The Great Pursuit

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
― Virginia Woolf

“...you look at me like an emergency”
― Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving.”
― Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story