Michelle > Michelle's Quotes

“This too shall pass.”
― Hakim Sanai

“too much love like too much rain begets large and bloody pools of discontent. I see my winter marked in your eyes. Whoever told you I was perfection?'-exerpt from Valide”
― Barbara Chase-Riboud

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”
― Bob Hope

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

“Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.”
― Bono

“Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”
― Mae West

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
― Mae West

“It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.”
― Mae West

“Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.”
― Mae West

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“Dignity, always Dignity!”
― Gene Kelly

“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”
― Mel Brooks

“The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.”
― Mel Brooks

“Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.”
― Robin Williams

“You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.”
― Robin Williams

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch. That lasted a while,’ she admitted. ‘Now all I really crave is a good bowel movement.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.”
― Henning Mankell

“To all the ships at sea, and all the ports of call. To my family and to all friends and strangers. This is a message, and a prayer. The message is that my travels taught me a great truth. I already had what everyone is searching for and few ever find. The one person in the world who I was born to love forever. A person, like me, of the outer banks and the blue Atlantic mystery. A person rich in simple treasures. Self-made. Self-taught. A harbor where I am forever home. And no wind, or trouble or even a little death can knock down this house. The prayer is that everyone in the world can know this kind of love and be healed by it. If my prayer is heard, there will be an erasing of all guilt and all regret and an end to all anger. Please, God. Amen.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle