Lisa Hadden > Lisa's Quotes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT”
― Slash

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”
― Oliver James

“Where's your will to be weird?”
― Jim Morrison

“If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.”
― Mel Brooks

“the past is only the future with the lights on.”
― Mark Hoppus, blink-182: Tales from Beneath Your Mom

“If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.”
― Angelina Jolie

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

“heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control.”
― Margo DeMello

“Tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.”
― Michelle Delio

“I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'-
Tommy Lee”
― Tommy Lee

“I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.”
― Sri Chinmoy

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me”
― Jonny Lang

“She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.”
― Sarah Mayberry, Her Best Friend

“But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles”
― Anna Nalick

“The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.”
― Richard Bandler

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa

“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension.

I was sorry of the man who, it seemed to me, was forced to hover about the edges of science. He was compelled to shiver endlessly in the outskirts, getting only feeble warmth from the distant sun of science- in-progress; while I, just beginning my research, was bathed in the heady liquid heat up at the very center of the glow.

In a lifetime of being wrong at many a point, I was never more wrong. It was I, not he, who was wandering in the periphery. It was he, not I, who lived in the blaze.

I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the 'growing edge;' the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.

But is that true? Because a tree in spring buds and comes greenly into leaf, are those leaves therefore the tree? If the newborn twigs and their leaves were all that existed, they would form a vague halo of green suspended in mid-air, but surely that is not the tree. The leaves, by themselves, are no more than trivial fluttering decoration. It is the trunk and limbs that give the tree its grandeur and the leaves themselves their meaning.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before. 'If I have seen further than other men,' said Isaac Newton, 'it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”
― Isaac Asimov, Adding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.”
― Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

“The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.”
― Drew Barrymore

“I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.”
― Nigel Davis

“Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”
― Andy Warhol

“Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.”
― Steve Kluger, My Most Excellent Year

“Today is today, only today...

tomorrow...it will only be yesterday.”
― L. Curt Erler