Random Inspirational Quotes

"I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

"On the other hand, if the future is not the one you chose then you may have to use your willpower to obtain the future of your liking."

"Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom."

"The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people."

"That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for."

"A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily, songs that are positive and uplifting – in short, works of art that show a world that is almost unfallen where no one experiences conflict and where sin is naughty rather than wicked."

"sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"

"Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination."

"Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time."

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two."

"The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand if one studied it closely enough."

"Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation,"intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous."

"Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy."

"Love means never having to be apart"

"Tina leans forward and asks quietly, 'Do you? You know? Love her?'Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how."

"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks,"she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck,"she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."

"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable."