scar > scar's Quotes

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“He presses the triggers. And like roses in his hands, death blooms.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“Most people would say I’m pretty cold, but I think of it more as…private. People are always saying “how are you?” to each other, and I guess I don’t see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.”
― James Frey

“Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.”
― James Frey

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“Lots of people have bad stories, and if they wail and sob and tell their story to anyone who’ll listen, it’s crap. Or half crap, at least.The stuff that really hurts people, the stuff that almost breaks them . . . that they won’t talk about. Ever.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

“The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
― Frank Miller

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 2: No Future for You

“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
― Ismail Kadare, Broken April

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?”
― Shirley Graham Du Bois

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes