Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Oliver

And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.

Lauren Oliver

But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second's breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins.

Lauren Oliver

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

Lauren Oliver

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

Larry Wall

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

L. Frank Baum

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

Lillian Smith

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

P. J. O'Rourke

Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

Pablo Picasso

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

Pablo Picasso

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Pablo Picasso

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Pablo Picasso

It took me a lifetime.

Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Paul Shaffer

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

Paul Stamets

Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.

Paul Meyer

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass.

Paul Johnson

My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help.

Paul Cezanne

I wish to die painting.

Paul Cezanne

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Patti Davis

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Patricia MacLachlan

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

Patricia McCormick

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

Oscar Wilde

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Oscar Wilde

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

Oscar Wilde

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Oscar Wilde

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

Oscar Wilde

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Oscar Wilde

Life is like a box of terrible analogies...