autumnLEEves’s most recent Quotables

Sometimes in our hyper-cynical world, we forget that it's okay to get enthusiastic about things

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.

Michel: Well, you know what happens when you assume.
Lorelai: What?
Michel: I don't know. Something about a donkey. It is a stupid American phrase.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

College is breaking my spirit. Every single day, telling me things I don't know. It's making me feel stupid.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

You give your heart to Fred Astaire, but you save your body for Gene Kelly.

I chose, and my world was shaken
So what?
The choice may have been mistaken
The choosing was not
You have to move on.

What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!