Daniel Mcphee > Daniel's Quotes

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

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

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“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

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
― Emile Zola

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“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

“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”
― Kenneth Rexroth

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

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

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

“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

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit