Nikki > Nikki's Quotes

“I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...”
― Tom Petty

“The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. I meet far too many people who are going to be writers 'someday.' When they are out of high school, when they've finished college, after the wedding, when the kids are older, after I retire . . . That is such a trap You will never have any more free time than you do right now. So, whether you are 12 or 70, you should sit down today and start being a writer if that is what you want to do. You might have to write on a notebook while your kids are playing on the swings or write in your car on your coffee break. That's okay. I think we've all 'been there, done that.' It all starts with the writing. ”
― Robin Hobb

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
― Michel Legrand

“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.”
― Claire Fagin

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.”
― Plato, The Republic of Plato

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
― Voltaire

“The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.”
― Jack Johnson

“If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away. ”
― Jack Johnson

“Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Why are we here and where do we go
And how come it's so hard”
― Jack Johnson

“you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart”
― Jack Johnson

“People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.”
― Jack Johnson

“I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.”
― Jack Johnson

“Im not going to change my ways,
just to please you or appease you,
inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out,
right, wrong, weak strong,
ashes to ashes all fall down.”
― Dave Matthews