Jayne Pixton > Jayne's Quotes

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.”
― Dee Snider

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing”
― dee snider

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois