Quotes - Emily Wrayburn (emilywrayburn) Showing 1-30 of 54

#1

“You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, The Funny Thing Is...

tags: book, writing

1245 likes

#2

“The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: bar-guide, drinking, humor

356 likes

#3

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

2283 likes

#4

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller

tags: humor

1493 likes

#5

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

tags: wisdom

3773 likes

#6

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17495 likes

#7

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
― Scott Westerfield

tags: love

2027 likes

#8

“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

tags: life, pain

6213 likes

#9

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6234 likes

#10

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

tags: qotd

9084 likes

#11

“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

tags: brains, marriage

2124 likes

#12

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47056 likes

#13

“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you.
My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
― John Keats

tags: love, martyrdom, self-sacrifice

971 likes

#14

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
― Brian Cox

tags: consciousness, cosmos, inspirational, life, universe

304 likes

#15

“You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.”
― Brian Cox

87 likes

#16

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

356 likes

#17

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

2198 likes

#18

“Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember.”
― Joseph Eastwood

tags: dream, inspiration, perfect, perfection, writing

112 likes

#19

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

2907 likes

#20

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

2261 likes

#21

“Captain?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think it was destiny that brought us together?"
He squinted and, after a thoughtful moment, shook his head. "No. I'm pretty sure it was Cinder.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

tags: cinder, cress, fate, lunar-chronicles, thorne

2008 likes

#22

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: power-of-words

9860 likes

#23

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

5521 likes

#24

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: death, life

4279 likes

#25

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

4619 likes

#26

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

tags: knowledge

1163 likes

#27

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

139 likes

#28

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: bitterness, truth, women

348 likes

#29

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

16943 likes

#30

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

2705 likes

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