Quotes - Amy Johnson (The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 45

#1

“Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

#2

“There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

58 likes

#3

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: inspirational

848 likes

#4

“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

1025 likes

#5

“Anyway, at some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

41 likes

#6

“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
― Carrie Fisher

477 likes

#7

“Hatred is the sincerest form of flattery.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: flattery, hate

219 likes

#8

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
― Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō

tags: books, contemplation, reading

138 likes

#9

“It’s a simple idiot-proofing scheme that’s very effective. But no idiot-proofing can overcome a determined idiot.”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

tags: idiotproofing, idiots

85 likes

#10

“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: life

1705 likes

#11

“Similarly, an unmatched set of bound books can be considered unattractive, but Bishop Kōyū impressed me deeply by saying that only a boring man will always want things to match; real quality lies in irregularity - another excellent remark.”
― Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

11 likes

#12

“Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”
― Kakuzo Okakura, Book of Tea

52 likes

#13

“How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?”
― Okakura Kakuzō

tags: existence, life, meaning-of-life

17 likes

#14

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

2427 likes

#15

“I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

tags: books, library, literature, reading, words

770 likes

#16

“Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now. ”
― Jim Butcher

tags: dresden-files-books

443 likes

#17

“Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

tags: humor

169 likes

#18

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: humor, twists

105 likes

#19

“Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however."
"My apologies to your horse.”
― David Eddings, Queen of Sorcery

tags: asharak, wolf

22 likes

#20

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: love

12585 likes

#21

“To live is enough.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

54 likes

#22

“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

279 likes

#23

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

tags: inkheart

2903 likes

#24

“I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant

tags: funny

513 likes

#25

“This is tough but CHERUB's are tougher”
― Robert Muchamore, The Recruit

tags: basic-training, cherub, robert-muchamore

101 likes

#26

“No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.”
― David Eddings, King of the Murgos

1 likes

#27

“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

233 likes

#28