Quotes

Quotes

This page is dedicated to quotes I love and quotes I invent myself. At the end of each you will see the writer and therefore be able to distinguish which is which. We love quotes because of their ability to the immediately assert themselves a REAL and TRUE. They are the stories of people who have done exactly as you have or are planning on, longer before you even thought of it. They now have decided to grace you with their knowledge in one simple statement.




“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” 
Apple Inc.

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
Marilyn Monroe

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

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
Pablo Picasso

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
Groucho Marx

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
Vincent van Gogh

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
Rick Riordan

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
Oscar Wilde

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
Pablo Picasso

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
Pablo Picasso

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
Émile Zola

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss

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

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
Albert Camus

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”   
 ― C.S. Lewis

“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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
John Lennon

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
Bil Keane

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.”
Mark Twain

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

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“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

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
Dr. Seuss

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas A. Edison

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
Jim Henson

“You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
C.S. Lewis

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
Robert Maynard Hutchins

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
Garrison Keillor

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

“We read to know that we are not alone.”
C.S. Lewis

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
Albert Einstein

“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
G.K. Chesterton

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Bob Marley

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
John Lennon

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
Shel Silverstein

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-The-Pooh

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-The-Pooh

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
Anaïs Nin

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Dr. Seuss

“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.”
Marilyn Monroe

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar Wilde

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Mark Twain

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
Rita Mae Brown

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
W.C. Fields

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

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

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
Maya Angelou

“Do one thing everyday that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
George Carlin

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
Albert Einstein

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain

“Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”
Mark Twain\

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
Oscar Levant

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"When i come upon new infrmation tha i should have known previouly it is as though a bran new peice of my heart has asserted itself in my chest."
- Baylee Rae Mann

 
“Sometimes those who are the quietest make the most noise.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“It’s not the dark that we are afraid of, it’s what our imaginative minds create to live inside it. Partly that we thought of it is what scares us the most.”
-Baylee Rae Mann


“If the earth was flat then the man who lived on the edge would have mentioned his strange backyard.”
-Baylee Rae Mann


“When you stay in the dark for so long, at first the light hurts your eyes.”
-Baylee Rae Mann


“The light at the end of the tunnel is just a crack in the miles and miles left to crawl.”
-Baylee Rae Mann


“Nature is so delicate and we are so heavy. I am part nature and part human. So delicate and yet more weighed down than I wish to be.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“The crazier and stupid one person sounds, the more sane and smart you feel. Don’t think everyone’s stupid, you’re not that smart.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“Architecture is sculpture you are able to reside inside of.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“The people which talk in the most abstract and twisted manner, I understand the best.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“Breathe as though you are standing on the edge of a perfectly safe unguarded ledge. What a breathe that would be.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“Shoes, what for? Protection? Comfort? Shoes protect only the damage being done to our earth. Shoes are the barrier between us and the earth we reside on. It would be foolish to say we truly ‘walk’ on it. Maybe if we could feel the difference between hard asphalt and soft crisp grass and dirt, we would do a lot less covering over of what is most beautiful.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“You never grow out of anything; you only grow into caring what other people think.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“You need a space that no one else would truly fit in but you.”

-Pamela Valcante

“I was grey and white like a photograph, a dead photograph which one keeps hopefully for remembrance, but which has no power to bring back anything.”

-Aynn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Loneliness is a fool and is a wretched thing to possess, but it is so much less complicated to live than to quarrel with other people on things undecided and relative to each person.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“I believe I am a lose leaf that just so happens to know which tree and branch I fell from. While I long to sway in the breeze with my fellows, I prefer to roam in the open land. Though it can be lonely in the rain and storms I prefer to be alone. If I was tied to one tree I would not be free.”

-Baylee Rae Mann

“It is evident that no perfect painting possesses a perfect subject. No beauty rests in absolute perfection. It is only the flaws that show the amount of beauty the most beautiful parts possess. Without a flaw in a women than you never are able to understand the value of the beauty she holds on the scale that is our eyes. If all is perfect than all is the same, and no one likes sameness. It presents the challenge of not getting bored.”

-Baylee Rae Mann



"You've Never been south what blows off your mouth."
-Laura Marling, Hope in the Air


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