Kalina > Kalina's Quotes

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"
Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"
"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."
Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."
...
I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."
"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.
"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“Oh I can't stop drinking the coffee, I stop drinking the coffee and I stop doing the standing and the walking and the words-putting-into-sentence-doing.”
― Lorelai

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

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

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“Настане вечер — месец изгрее,
звезди обсипят сводът небесен;
гора зашуми, вятър повее, —
Балканът пее хайдушка песен!”
― Христо Ботев

“Тоз, който падне в бой за свобода, той не умира”
― Христо Ботев, Поезия. Публицистика

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
― Voltaire

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud