Quotes - Lindsey Rojem (lrojem) (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 318

#1

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

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#2

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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#3

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source

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#5

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#6

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor

7875 likes

#7

“I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!”
― Jerry Scott

tags: carpe-diem, humor, latin, zits

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#8

“I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass”
― Ashley Newell

tags: deception, mockery, paraphrasing, uneducated

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#9

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#10

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

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#11

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

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#12

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

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#13

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

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#14

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

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#15

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

5868 likes

#16

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#17

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

13880 likes

#18

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

tags: cats

1678 likes

#19

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion

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#20

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

tags: creepy, woman

895 likes

#21

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6458 likes

#22

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: hope, love

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#23

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#24

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
― Yves Saint Laurent

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#25

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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#26

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

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#27

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

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#28

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

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#29