Famous Quotes . . .
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi
“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
— Madeline L’Engle
— Madeline L’Engle
"When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tightrope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change." —Jeanette Winterson
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." —Og Mandino
(I suck so badly at this.)
(I suck so badly at this.)
"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
—Douglas Adams
—Douglas Adams
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
—H.L. Mencken
—H.L. Mencken
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
—Eleanor Roosevelt
—Eleanor Roosevelt
"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."
—Dorothy L. Sayers
—Dorothy L. Sayers
"Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." —Neil Gaiman, misquoting G.K. Chesterton
"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine- everybody drinks water."
~Mark Twain
~Mark Twain
And you can immerse yourself in them.
"We of Thelema say that 'Every man and every woman is a star.' We do not fool and flatter women; we do not despise and abuse them. To us a woman is Herself, absolute, original, independent, free, self-justified, exactly as a man is."
—Alaster Crowley
—Alaster Crowley
Been there, done that, have the war wounds.
Let me help you out . . .
. . .here's the door!
"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."
-R.M. Brown
(I have this tattooed on my forearm
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-R.M. Brown
(I have this tattooed on my forearm
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That's a good one! A priest friend of mine said to me that you aren't living a true life if everyone likes you."The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."
-R.M. Brown
(I have this tattooed on my forearm
Thank you Madame.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
A Whack o Wit Quotes by Willie the Shake:
- Asses are made to bear, and so are you
- Brevity is the soul of wit
- Caviar to the general
- I have a kind of alacrity in sinking
- Knock, knock! Who's there?
- Laid on with a trowel
- Let's kill all the lawyers
- Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile
- More honored in the breach
- More than kin and less than kind
- Neither rhyme nor reason
- Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
- On the windy side
- Strange bedfellows
- Strive mightily
- Valiant dust
- What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?
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