"I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously."

— David Bowie

"I'm either really girlie and wearing a dress, or I'm on my motorsycle looking like a homeless person:"

— Pink

“I’m one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I’ll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.”

—Jack White

Mia: That’s when you know you’ve found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

— Pulp Fiction (1994)

“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.”

— Ferdinand von Schrubentauffrt

"I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends."

— Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands

"Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today."

— Andrew Carnegie

"If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be."

— Evelyn Waugh

"What have I learned in the last 5 years? Don't let people influence you. You get advice everyday from everyone - but you have to be your own guide"

—Britney Spears

“You can’t call me and tell me that you miss me. I don’t want to have that conversation on the phone. So you can’t text me and you can’t e-mail me, and you can’t…write on my wall. Like, if you really miss me, you need to grow up and get in your car and come and see me.”

— No Strings Attached

"Apparently, he was too busy living his own life, to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine"

—Melissa Kantor, Girlfriend Material

“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

— Veronica A. Shoffstall

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."

— Walt Disney Company

"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ"

— Anaïs Nin

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

— Winston S. Churchill

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

— Charles Bukowski

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."

— Audrey Hepburn

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!"

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course"

—Marilyn Monroe

"I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other."

— Stephen Chbosky

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."

— William W. Purkey

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."

— Robert A. Heinlein

"You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself."

— Marilyn Monroe

"Being crazy isn't enough."

— Dr. Seuss

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."

— Mae West

“You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it’s not true. Generally, people don’t like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.”

— Miranda July

"Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy."

— Charlaine Harris

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it."

— Mother Teresa

"Reality continues to ruin my life."

— Bill Watterson

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."

— 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

"Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!"

— Bob Marley

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."

— Mother Teresa

"I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself."

— Shannon Hale

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"

— George Carlin

"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?"

— Paulo Coelho

"Power is being told you are not loved and not being destroyed by it."

— Madonna