Quotes - Shan (shangilbert) (Melbourne, Australia) Showing 1-30 of 42

#1

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

tags: books, humor

#2

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

89263 likes

#3

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

78413 likes

#4

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

84989 likes

#5

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47065 likes

#6

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

37581 likes

#7

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

35259 likes

#8

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

28825 likes

#9

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins

24390 likes

#10

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source

28149 likes

#11

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26974 likes

#12

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life

25647 likes

#13

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

23882 likes

#14

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

29979 likes

#15

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time

21004 likes

#16

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

18673 likes

#17

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

16447 likes

#18

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21529 likes

#19

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed, fear, inspiration

21273 likes

#20

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

21199 likes

#21

“I’ve never felt so heartbroken and so in love at the same time. If you would’ve told me the day we met that you were going to break my heart— and that days, months, or even years would pass, that I would still be hurting like this—it wouldn’t have stopped me from falling in love with you.”
― Gail McHugh, Collide

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#22

“Here's to bottle caps,the Yankees, and 'birds', and most of all"...he paused and lowered his voice to a whisper.." and,most of all to a beautiful girl named Molly who refuses to believe the man-the man who loves her more than she'll ever know”
― Gail McHugh, Collide

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#23

“I want the late-night drives, the sunset watching, the screaming, the yelling, and the crying. I know I'll definitely want the make-up sex that comes after all of the screaming and crying. I want the good, the bad, and the in-between. All of it is what's going to make us amazing together.”
― Gail McHugh, Collide

155 likes

#24

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: hope

2002 likes

#25

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135620 likes

#26

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

3708 likes

#27

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

9592 likes

#28

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

12853 likes

#29