Greg Davies > Greg's Quotes

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.”
― Graham Parke, Unspent Time

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
― George Burns

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly