Lara > Lara's Quotes

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”
― Lemony Snicket

“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3

“The best mirror is an old friend.”
― George Herbert

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“By chance we met, by choice we become friend”
― Millie

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It