Quotes - Kelly (kellymcarthur) (Melbourne, Australia) Showing 1-30 of 127

#1

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, love, reading

3319 likes

#2

“It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

65 likes

#3

“She loves me-she just doesn't know it yet.”
― Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape

tags: love

8 likes

#4

“A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a man like that surely puts us all to shame.”
― Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape

11 likes

#5

“In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.”
― Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape

tags: art

12 likes

#6

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: reminding

6074 likes

#7

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: butterflies, caterpillars, philosophy

2528 likes

#8

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: inspirational

4468 likes

#9

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: responsibility

1800 likes

#10

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

tags: language, laziness, morose, tired, very, women

1380 likes

#11

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

247 likes

#12

“We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

225 likes

#13

“When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum

29 likes

#14

“And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum

19 likes

#15

“Adam had smiled at him and Max had smiled back. And then they both just stood there in that awkward silence that happens when two people are attracted to each other but don’t know what to do about it because they are strangers.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Sellevision

4 likes

#16

“They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it.”
― Albert Camus, The Adulterous Woman

tags: albert-camus, camus, silence

13 likes

#17

“She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.”
― Albert Camus

tags: fiction, loneliness, solitude, the-adulterous-woman, thoughts

78 likes

#18

“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.”
― Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

80 likes

#19

“A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

157 likes

#20

“Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal

tags: important-quotes

45 likes

#21

“All men want their whores to be unhappy.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

20 likes

#22

“That’s a private interest of mine – what brings a fellow down here, you know, to the ends of the earth – what sparks a man?”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

tags: sparks

12 likes

#23

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: goals, success

3887 likes

#24

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: dogs, peace

2480 likes

#25

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

2089 likes

#26

“It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.”
― Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir

tags: attention, friends

31 likes

#27

“It's just after three o'clock when we hit County Road 50. The temperature has swelled past ninety and the sun scorches our backs as we swerve our bikes around pools of bubbling tar.”
― Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir

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#28

“So much for the famous 'Hoosier hospitality.' When we moved to our new house, no one stopped by with strawberry rhubarb pie or warm wishes. Our neighbors must have taken one look at David and Jerome and locked their doors - and minds - against us”
― Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir

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#29

“Neither of us uttered a word about what happened. We never do. But I can't smudge it from my mind. The farm boys' sneering red faces. The runt shaking the fence. The brown lump of spit tobacco. The anguish in David's eyes. They don't know the first thing about us; they just hate us because we're black”
― Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir

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#30

“Mother's got romantic notions about toiling the land - or mostly, about her children toiling the land. And with fifteen acres, there's always something that needs toiling with.”
― Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir

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