Shelby > Shelby's Quotes

“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
― Stephen Fry

“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
― Maya Angelou

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende