- As for you my galvanized friend, you want a heart! You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.—The Wizard, The Wizard of Oz
- Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.—Stephen King
- Deep down, a cynic is a sentimental fool who's been burned.—anonymous
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.—Eleanor Roosevelt
- I know God won't give me more than I can handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much sometimes.—Mother Teresa
- All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.—J.R.R. Tolkien
- Wise men say forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza—Michelangelo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- I'm looking for a dare-to-be-great situation.—Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
- Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.—Harry Fosdick
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; for that is where they should be. Now go put foundations under them.—Henry David Thoreau
- Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.—Joanne Woodward
- It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The worst feeling isn't being lonely. It's being forgotten by the person that you cannot forget.—anonymous
- Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don't bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.—Jim Jarmusch
- Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night—be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.—Frank Sinatra
- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with that he vowed to make it.—J.M. Barrie
- Almost everyone you know, without exception, has their heart all wrapped around someone who will never love them back.—anonymous
- I want everything too much.—Rachel Berry, Glee ("Mash-Up")
- One of the most sublime and hazardous moments in human experience comes when two people lock eyes and realize that they are sexually attracted to one another. They may not act on the knowledge. They may file it away for future reference. They may deny it. They may never see each other again. But the moment has happened, and for an instant all other considerations are insignificant.—Roger Ebert
- It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.—Roger Ebert
- An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.—Pope John Paul II
- The very essence of romance is uncertainty.—Oscar Wilde
- You always wind up knowing more about your characters than you can get onto the page. Pages are finite, and the story isn't about giving you all the information about everyone in it any more than life is. Things the author knows about characters (or at least, strongly suspects—it's never really real until it hits the page, because the process of writing is also a process of discovery) that don't make it onto the page could include the characters' backstory, what they like to eat, the toothpaste they use, what happens to them after the story is over or before it began, and what they do in bed. That something didn't turn up in the books just means it didn't make it onto the page or wasn't relevant to the story.—Neil Gaiman
- Go forth and set the world on fire.—St. Ignacius
- To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.—e.e. cummings
- An extrovert is someone who is in love with their own reflection. An introvert is someone who is afraid of their own shadow.—anonymous
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.—from Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
- I hate cynicism. For the record, it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.—Conan O'Brien
- The best revenge is massive success.—Frank Sinatra
- Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.—Malcolm X
- Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.—Oscar Wilde
- 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
- Fairy tales are more than true—not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.—G. K. Chesterton
- If you go home with someone and they don't have any books, don't fuck them.—John Waters
- I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.—Frank Sinatra
- The way we use pop music as fans usually has so little to do with the actual musicians or stars. We really just talk about these songs as a way of talking about ourselves, and our dreams and what we want.—Rob Sheffield
- True love will triumph in the end. Which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.—John Green
- Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff... Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can't-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is "You like stuff." Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, "You are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness."—John Green
- We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.—anonymous
- A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.—Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Oh, give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me, I would love him alone and forever.—Francesca, Casanova
- Fine! I cared. I'm a girly girl. I like boys, and I don't like it when they're mean to me, and I don't like it when they stop kissing me and start kissing my friends, I'm not that cool, I'm not Juno, homeslice.—Britta Perry, Community ("Romantic Expressionism")
- I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.—George Burns
- You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy—all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know—this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing for you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtship. They want to know immediately.—Sofia, Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
- I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to mean something to someone.—unknown
- We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.—Marlon Brando
- The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.—Ray Bradbury
- Believing in even the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful thing.—Mary Margaret Blanchard, Once Upon a Time
- It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.—ee cummings
- I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want a steady hand, a kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe.—Shana Abé
- I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.—Mark Ruffalo
- I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.—Jane Austen
- Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.—Christina Westover
- Always consider giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game... And if it's a game, then you need to win.—Taylor Swift
- To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?—Michael Jackson
- I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.—Theodore I. Rubin
- You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.—Annie Prolux
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