Quotes - Amber Couch (ancouch) (Myrtle Beach, SC) Showing 1-30 of 124

#1

“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group.
They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?”
― Michael Moore

tags: librarians

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#2

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

tags: heartbreak

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#3

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, books

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#4

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#6

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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#7

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, imagination

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#8

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#9

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#10

“As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

tags: books, shiver

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#11

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

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#12

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

tags: books

6984 likes

#13

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-reading

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#14

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

tags: austen, criticism, reading, writing

1636 likes

#15

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

tags: education

2891 likes

#16

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

3786 likes

#17

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31473 likes

#18

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#19

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#20

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12685 likes

#21

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: television, writing

1559 likes

#22

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

tags: writing

2651 likes

#23

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

4685 likes

#24

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18872 likes

#25

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7336 likes

#26

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

5863 likes

#27

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

21113 likes

#28

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

tags: books

6771 likes

#29

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
― George W. Bush

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#30

“How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.

The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: books, first-impressions

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#31

“Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.”
― Shannon Hale

tags: books, genre, young_adult

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