So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
-- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
God is my superman I tug on his cape:
-- Richard L. Ratliff, The Silence Between the Sighs
The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.
-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.
-- John Crowley, Little, Big
When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.
-- Barney Stinson, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
Black and white, vacuum of cosmos vis-à-vis occupancy of skies.
-- Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
-- Ellen Goodman, A Short Stay in Hell
Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.
-- Kamand Kojouri, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
世上唯一能影響其他人的方法,就是先談論人們想要的東西,再向人們展示如何取得
-- 戴爾.卡內基,卡內基訓練創始人
If we knew all the answers, there will be no research.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Prescription: Treating India's Soul
Even when the number of seeds is filled in you: for he had weighed the world in the balance.
-- Compton Gage, Lights Out: Book 2
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
-- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.
-- Trent Zelazny, Piddly poems for children vol:3
Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
-- Amanda Craig, Salon Des Femmes: Conversations about women, men, sex, love, relationships, and becoming a pragmatis
Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,
-- E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
無論「年紀」,你都可以有新的目標或新的夢想。
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-- 克利夫·斯特普爾斯·路易斯,英國作家,《納尼亞傳奇》作者
Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
-- Joyce Meyer, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1
And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.
-- Catherine Anderson, Cherish
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
-- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas