Linda Boyd > Linda's Quotes

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

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
― Nora Roberts

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
― George Burns

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

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

“I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.”
― Mike Gayle, Turning Thirty

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.”
― George Plimpton

“I need a sitting room where I can entertain my friends, but I must have a library where my books entertain me.”
― Brooks Adams, great-grandson of John & Abigail Adams

“Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Do you drink?"
"Of course,I just said I was a writer.”
― Stephen King

“Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”
― Stephen King

“I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. It's always like that. You think you've blown something off and then you say it out loud and suddenly you're all choked up and pathetic.”
― Kyra Davis, So Much for My Happy Ending

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Being crazy isn't enough.”
― Dr. Seuss