Random Inspirational Quotes

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way."

"Concatenate /kənˈkætəneɪt/to link together, as in a chain Do you concatenate cats by tying their tails together or do you just stuff the tail of one into the mouth of the other?Which method is better for yanking your chain?"

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

"Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's."

"Lowbrows vs. Highbrows If you show something lowbrow to a highbrow does it wind up becoming crusty eye caca?"

"Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times."

"I am; I was. I want to be."

"I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...my best shot."

"She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?"

"He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me."

"You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe."

"As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author."

"Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care."

"However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?"

"If we could push ajar the gates of life,And stand within, and all God's workings see,We could interpret all this doubt and strife,And for each mystery could find a key.But not today. Then be content, poor heart!God's plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold:We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart--Time will reveal the calyxes of gold."

"Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations."

"Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil."

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."