Suzanne Dix > Suzanne's Quotes

“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.”
― Linton Weeks

“It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“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

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

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner