Kanhary > Kanhary's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 390
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13
sort by

  • #1
    “It is said some lives are linked across time. Connected by an ancient calling that echoes through the ages. Destiny.”
    Prince of Persia 1

  • #2
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #4
    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

  • #7
    Craig Claiborne
    “Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
    Craig Claiborne

  • #8
    “Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.”
    Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures
    tags: race

  • #9
    “If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just read up on the traits of a Gemini. Suddenly you're a multitasker who loves the color yellow. Because not only do you get stuck with them combo gift, you get the combo song. "We wish you a merry Christmas - and happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas - happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Ye - Birthday, Terry!”
    Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

  • #10
    Ned Vizzini
    “deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.”
    Ned Vizzini

  • #11
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #12
    Russell T. Davies
    “Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

    (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
    Russell T. Davies

  • #13
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #14
    Anne Lamott
    “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
    Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

  • #15
    Kevin Kwan
    “Eleanor had a long-held theory about men. She truly believed that for most men, all that talk of “being in love” or “finding the right one” was absolute nonsense. Marriage was purely a matter of timing, and whenever a man was finally done sowing his wild oats and ready to settle down, whichever girl happened to be there at the time would be the right one.”
    Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

  • #16
    Susan Sontag
    “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #17
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

  • #18
    Colleen Hoover
    “Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen.”
    Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

  • #19
    Colleen Hoover
    “Just because someone hurts you doesn't mean you can simply stop loving them. It's not a person's actions that hurt the most. It's the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”
    Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

  • #20
    Colleen Hoover
    “All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
    Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

  • #21
    Guy Standing
    “education sold as an investment good that has no economic return for most buyers is, quite simply, a fraud.”
    Guy Standing, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

  • #22
    Guy Standing
    “Without the freedom to make ‘mistakes’, people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.”
    Guy Standing, A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income

  • #23
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #24
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #25
    Criss Jami
    “The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #26
    Anne Frank
    “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #27
    Anne Frank
    “There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #28
    Anthony Doerr
    “We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #29
    Holly Black
    “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #30
    Cecelia Ahern
    “It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to go. There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

    Or perhaps a variation of what you once wanted.

    Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?”
    Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13