Nicole > Nicole's Quotes

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
― richard siken

“I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of God.”
― Emerson Ralph Waldo

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
― Mae West

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
― Mae West

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
― Mae West

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
― Mae West

“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
― Mae West

“I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
― Mae West

“I'm single because I was born that way.”
― Mae West

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
― Mae West

“Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.”
― Mae West

“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
― Mae West

“It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.”
― Mae West

“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
― Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

“Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.”
― Mae West

“Sex is an emotion in motion.”
― Mae West

“Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”
― Mae West

“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
― Mae West