Tara > Tara's Quotes

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
― Austin Phelps

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ”
― Pearl Buck

“Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. ”
― Lewis Mumford

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“You said you loved my belly button,” I remind him. “You said ‘love,’ Thomas. Love,” I drag the word out. “Does that mean you love me?”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I would have done anything for an old fashioned phone right about now. Instead I have to suffice with pushing the End Call button really hard”
― melissa pearl, Betwixt

“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing

1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
― Elmore Leonard

“Find your life’s purpose and dare to pursue it.”
― Debasish Mridha

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Fourth Doctor: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.”
― Chris Boucher

“There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.”
― Steven Moffat

“When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.”
― Elton Pope

“Then, he smiled. And my consciousness came crashing back down to earth, bitch-slapped out of its reverie, by the worst teeth I had ever seen. Fuck, they were bad. You could have parked a double-wide between those discolored front tusks, and the rest of them looked like they were engaged in fisticuffs, scrambling over each other in a desperate attempt to leap from that hellhole—pun fully intended—and finally put an end to their suffering.”
― B.B. Easton, 44 Chapters About 4 Men

“There is nothing in the entire American Psychological Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual that describes my shit. I have three degrees in psychology, and I still don’t know what’s wrong with me, other than the fact that I’m a bad psychologist, obviously.”
― B.B. Easton, 44 Chapters About 4 Men

“Knight would carry my backpack and open my beers and light all my cigarettes, like a gentleman.”
― B.B. Easton, 44 Chapters About 4 Men