Shannon > Shannon's Quotes

“If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.”
― Aimee Bender

“Keep passing the open windows.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Curiouser and curiouser.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it.”
― Shel Silverstein , Roger Was a Razor Fish, and Other Poems

“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

“I find myself subject to the entire range of emotions and reactions that a great book will call forth from its reader. I chuckle, laugh out loud, smile wistfully, cringe, widen my eyes in surprise, and even feel sadness--all from the neatly ordered rows of words and their explanations. All of the human emotions and experiences are right here in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized.”
― Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

“Scars are stories, history written on the body”
― Kathryn Harrison

“Nobody loves me, nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes.
Nobody helps when I get into a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.
Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.
So, if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
I'll stand up and tell you NOBODY is!
But yesterday night I got quite a scare
I woke up and Nobody just WASN'T there!
I called out and reached for Nobody's hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands,
Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found SOMEBODY each place that I looked.
I seached till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
There's no doubt about it-
NOBODY'S GONE!!”
― Shel Silverstein

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.”
― Adrienne Rich

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.”
― George Orwell, 1984