Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 14, 2006 14:12:56 GMT -5
;D I've got a book at home called "The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain" and it's basically a collection of some of his best quotes and comments, it's hilarious!
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Post by littlerhody9 on Oct 24, 2006 1:13:31 GMT -5
"And what they dare to dream of, I dare to do." -James Russell Lowell
And I always look at this quote when I'm feeling down: "Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one... I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast upon the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now." -Henry David Thoreau "Walden"
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zeldafitzgerald
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Oct 24, 2006 6:39:17 GMT -5
I love Walden! I had to read it for a class and was extremely surprised with how much I loved it, now it's one of my favorite books.
I have notebooks filled with quotes, and it's hard to pick a favorite but here are three I currently love: "it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. it faced - or seemed to face - the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. it understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey." -the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
“...for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see it's very much like you’re trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.” -The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." -On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Kristie
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"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Oct 24, 2006 12:24:05 GMT -5
for my first year anniversary with my boyfriend (this is about 2.5 years ago) i decided to collect a bunch of love poems and songs and write them in a nice journal for him. yeah, he liked it even if he is a guy and i definitely outdid myself the first year as far as romantic gifts goes. here's a few of them:
"I never knew how much like heaven this world could be. When two people love and live for one another." -Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
"Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there's plenty of room at both ends."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller
"I love you without knowing how or when or even from where. I love you straightforwardly without complexities or pride. I love you because I know no other way than this." -Patch Adams
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." -When Harry Met Sally
"A life without love is no life at all." -Ever After
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jen4219
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Post by jen4219 on Oct 24, 2006 13:19:04 GMT -5
Lately, I've picked up a few quotes from Jodi Picoult books:
- "Falling is the first step in learning how to fly." - From Perfect Match (I believe, but I could be mistaken).
- "It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride." - From Mercy
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agnotis
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Post by agnotis on Oct 24, 2006 22:48:11 GMT -5
too many too list so I will list the newest one
-"bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art 'cause it documents human failure."
its from the movie STAY. nothing special but I like it.
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gilmoreluver
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I loveeeeeeee Milo! (Jess) Literati is love!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by gilmoreluver on Oct 27, 2006 22:01:06 GMT -5
uh...I like the one from GG,
"I life in two worlds, one is a world of books" and "Your speaciale." "Like eat-the-paste speacial?" and "Are you seriose?" "Not usually.but right then,yeah I had a bit of seriose goin,"
I also like abunch from titanic. "I felt as tho I saw my whole world being lived before me,a endless parade of partys and polo matches"
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Post by Dominique on Oct 30, 2006 7:34:45 GMT -5
one of my fave Margaret Atwood quotes is:
“An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.” The Handmaid's Tale
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Oct 31, 2006 16:33:20 GMT -5
"It is the nature of love to create. It is the nature of hate to destroy." -A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
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anna1983
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Post by anna1983 on Nov 7, 2006 17:05:40 GMT -5
Heres a couple of my favourites:
"Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul"
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you even after you have forgotten the words"
"Sometimes we build up walls to see who cares enough to break them down"
"Too many of us stay walled up because we are afraid to care too much about someone for fear that the other person doesn't care as much or at all"
"The worst way to miss someone is when they are sitting right there and you know you can't have them"
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 7, 2006 17:28:28 GMT -5
i found this one the other day: I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -Mahatma Gandhi
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Post by bookaddict on Nov 10, 2006 21:04:19 GMT -5
i found this one the other day: I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -Mahatma Gandhi That is interesting... It reminds me of nuns and priests who were horribly mean to children.
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zeldafitzgerald
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Nov 11, 2006 8:44:00 GMT -5
One of my favorites quotes from literature is from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn:
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 13, 2006 16:08:32 GMT -5
here are a few of the hundreds i've gathered over the past few years:
"Translate the world into as many different languages as possible. If you see the world in just one language, your world becomes too small." -Year of Secret Assignments, Jaclyn Moriarty
"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." -Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling
"You can't make someone love you if it wasn't fated to be." -They Wear WHAT Under Their Kilts?, Katie Maxwell
You will not be happy or successful unless you take charge of your life and make it what you want." -They Wear WHAT Under Their Kilts?, Katie Maxwell
"You can't stop your heart from loving---it's like standing out in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop." -The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
"All human wisdom is contained in these words: 'Wait and hope!'" -The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
"To have possessed love would be an infinite and immense happiness, too complete and devine for this world." -The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Dec 5, 2006 16:11:07 GMT -5
"Every burned book enlightens the world." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (it's in my signature)
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