Vincent > Vincent's Quotes

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”
― Joan Rivers

“Adults follow paths. Children explore.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.”
― Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
― Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

“First we have to call it something which says it's our, not yours, then we set about finding some way of proving it's not what you said it is, but something we say it is.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish