Angela > Angela's Quotes

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.”
― Joan Crawford

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.”
― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

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

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West