Yas > Yas's Quotes

“In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”
― Alice B. Toklas

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“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

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

“I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.”
― Harold Pinter, Betrayal

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”
― Laurence Sterne

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye