Brian Stabler > Brian's Quotes

“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“Anything you do is a lie and nothing that happens to you is true.”
― Flann O'Brien

“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

“To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!”
― Clive Barker

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
― Albert Einstein

“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
― William Feather

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
― Albert Einstein

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
― Dr. Seuss

“Nobody said not to go.”
― Emily Hahn

“I guess sometimes you have to hide from the world to see it properly.”
― Sarah Pinborough, The Language of Dying

“Sometimes there are just too many words filling up space and not enough emptiness left for thinking. I keep a little emptiness inside for when I need it.”
― Sarah Pinborough, The Language of Dying

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Growing up is about realising the cracks in the pavement are nothing to worry about. It's the cracks inside that count.”
― Sarah Pinborough, The Language of Dying

“Two wrongs don't make anything right, but maybe they make things more equal.”
― S.J. Watson

“All men want to be someone else. It's what makes them do greater things with their lives. With the lives they can live.”
― Claire North

“There is no loneliness more lonely than to be alone in a crowd. No awkwardness more unsettling than the inside joke you do not comprehend.”
― Claire North, Touch

“Life's like Scrabble, you shouldn't save your good letters, you've got to use them as soon as you get them.”
― T.R. Richmond, What She Left

“What is a baby but a ghost turning real inside you?”
― Laura van den berg, Find Me

“For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts: Yes! That’s how it is! Yes! I saw that, too! And, of course, That’s what I think! That’s what I FEEL!”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“A nightmare becomes a nightmare when you start to believe it will never end.”
― Laura van den Berg, Find Me

“We believe what we see, whether it's real or not.”
― Laura van den Berg, Find Me

“If you have no way to mark the hours, no variance in the days, time will open its mouth and swallow you.”
― Laura van den Berg, Find Me

“Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From now on, Punzel, we're going to live by the sun and the seasons.' He picked me up and spun me around, laughing.'Our days will be endless.”
― Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days

“Death waits for us all. Nothing’s forever. Life’s about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who’s not content with what he’s got, well, more than likely he won’t be content with what he hasn’t.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a War

“All too often when we topple something hateful, rather than breaking it and starting afresh, we raise ourselves up in its place.”
― Joe Abercrombie

“They say it's men with nothing to lose you should fear. But it's them who fear most.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a War

“The faster you run from the past, the faster it catches you. All you can do is turn to face it. Embrace it. Try and meet the future wiser for it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a War