Meg > Meg's Quotes

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”
― Rosalind Franklin

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation of life ... I do not accept your definition of faith i.e. belief in life after death ... Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors. It seems to me that yours is the more selfish ... [as to] the question of a creator. A creator of what? ... I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe.”
― Rosalind Franklin