Quotes - Bonnie (Modesto, CA) Showing 1-30 of 107

#1

“I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.”
― Edward Gorey

#2

“Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.”
― Frank Peretti, Monster

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#3

“Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”
― Isabel Allende

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#4

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

2611 likes

#5

“Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.”
― Frank Peretti

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#6

“let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.”
― frank peretti

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#7

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice

1582 likes

#8

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

3367 likes

#9

“I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.”
― Edward Gorey

tags: boredom, ennui, life

363 likes

#10

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”
― Edward Gorey

tags: identity, work

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#11

“My favorite journey is looking out the window.”
― Edward Gorey

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#12

“Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.”
― Edward Gorey

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#13

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

1880 likes

#14

“oro?!”
― Nobuhiro Watsuki

tags: humor

36 likes

#15

“They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain”
― Nobuhiro Watsuki

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#16

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
― Mary Shelley

tags: inspirational

1017 likes

#17

“Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.”
― Laini Taylor

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#18

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

tags: hope, hopelessness, magic

3109 likes

#19

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

tags: attributed, fear, inspiration

21268 likes

#20

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

tags: life, love

3754 likes

#21

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: activism, life, philosophical

1277 likes

#22

“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor, truth

1499 likes

#23

“You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.”
― Richard Leigh, Come from the Heart Sheet Music

tags: susanna-clark

713 likes

#24

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: frustration, humor, laughter

2182 likes

#25

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
― Mary Schmich

tags: kindness

456 likes

#26

“If you can do no good, at least do no harm.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

tags: mantra

836 likes

#27

“The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.”
― Kurt Vonnegut