Horror for Newbies

A reader's canvas > A reader's canvas's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 47
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Jay Kristoff
    “The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight
    962 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
    5039 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135260 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148114 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114254 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109151 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93388 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77669 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71610 likes

    • like
  • #10
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64591 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43858 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
    42281 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
    36820 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    88878 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    84687 likes

    • like
  • #16
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60174 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
    49828 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44325 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Hermann Hesse
    “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    3664 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
    31204 likes

    • like
  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gandalf, prophecy, unanticipated
    837 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
    13873 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: love, poetry
    11811 likes

    • like
  • #24
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
    7857 likes

    • like
  • #25
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
    4985 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: poetry
    3868 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes
    3782 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Cho Nam-Joo
    “What do you want from us? The dumb girls are too dumb, the smart girls are too smart, and the average girls are too unexceptional?”
    ― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
    311 likes

    • like
  • #29
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
    33816 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
    28781 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From A reader's canvas’s Quotes

poetry
attributed-no-source
books
simile
soul
human-nature
humor
infinity
philosophy
science
stupidity
universe
action
change
inspirational
misattributed-to-gandhi
wish
life
friends
friendship
misattributed-albert-camus
carpe-diem
education
learning
intelligence
self-deprecation
insanity
misattributed-ben-franklin
misattributed-mark-twain
misattributed-to-einstein
individuality
majority
minority
pause
reflect
wisdom
edison
failure
paraphrased
fantasy
actions
disappointed
disappointment
dream
dreams
explore
sail
live
miracle
miracles
misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln
misattributed-to-mark-twain
remaining-silent
thought
gandalf
prophecy
unanticipated
literature
music
love
night
cheese
dreamer
imagination
liar
make-believe
wisher
wishes
misattributed
source-unknown
cats
women