Quotes - Michelle (marcher08) (Jackson, TN) Showing 1-30 of 230

#1

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
― Yogi Berra

tags: managment, science, truism

#2

“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: books, literature, meaning, power, words

763 likes

#3

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M

tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words

659 likes

#5

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6774 likes

#9

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21816 likes

#11

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

tags: life, reading

3934 likes

#16

“A Word is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry, words

776 likes

#18

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: eyre, jane

2319 likes

#20

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

8711 likes

#22

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

3989 likes

#24

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7341 likes

#26

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29748 likes

#29

“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

tags: book, books, reading

147 likes

#31

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6895 likes

#32

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life

6275 likes

#33

“There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.”
― Laura Lippman

60 likes

#36

“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

tags: books

1673 likes

#38

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

3337 likes

#40

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

1491 likes

#40

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne

11394 likes

#42

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

5601 likes

#42

“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

89066 likes

#43