Quotes - Andréia (andreiagallaskirch) (Porto Alegre, Brazil) Showing 1-30 of 63

#1

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7688 likes

#2

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
― Descartes

280 likes

#3

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13094 likes

#4

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9096 likes

#5

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17573 likes

#6

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

5543 likes

#7

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: good-evil

2866 likes

#8

“Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

318 likes

#9

“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: confidence

389 likes

#10

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

8073 likes

#11

“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”
― Emmett F. Fields

tags: atheism, misattributed-to-carl-sagan, religion

1106 likes

#12

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism

1502 likes

#13

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: progress

2235 likes

#14

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
― Carl Sagan

322 likes

#15

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: cosmos, science, thought-provoking

714 likes

#16

“You have to know the past to understand the present.”
― Carl Sagan

220 likes

#17

“All colours are arbitrary.”
― Carl Sagan

31 likes

#18

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
― Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

524 likes

#19

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: elegance, occams-razor, simplicity-imagination

617 likes

#20

“Time is the best killer.”
― Agatha Christie

381 likes

#21

“Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto

tags: writing

25 likes

#22

“After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto

22 likes

#23

“We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto

36 likes

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