Isaac Mcrae > Isaac's Quotes

“And have you ever stood on the water's edge and tried to stop the wave? It goes on regardless of what we do, regardless of how hard we try. The ocean reminds us that we are powerless in comparison.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“ut I”
― Susin Nielsen, Word Nerd

“But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“I am the Thomas Edison of conversational stupidity.”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

“Memory’s the muscle sting of now.”
― David Chariandy, Brother

“We were nobodies, or else, somehow, a city.”
― David Chariandy, Brother

“You don`t get mood swings from eating cornflakes”
― O.J. Simpson, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

“It's strange. They say people don't change, but I say they're wrong. People change, but it's usually for the worse.”
― O.J. Simpson, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

“This is a love story too. And, like a lot of love stories, it doesn't have a happy ending.”
― O.J. Simpson, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

“Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant