Quotes from Books

For it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

The greatest triumphs of the human mind are generally unrecognized by the great masses of mankind.

Happiness is never grand.

The witching hour is the hour when the veil between the worlds is thin.

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

I see everything. That is why I don’t like people.

I can't stand people who don't have the same sense of logic as I do.

The world is full of different kinds of people.

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television.

It’s shite being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low.

We're all a bit of a mess, but who isn't?

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The mind is the most powerful thing in the universe; it can create and it can destroy.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

The reader is an active participant in the text; the story is not complete without their engagement.

In the end, there is no beginning or end; only the act of reading itself.

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand.

Cities are a kind of memory, a place where the past and present coexist.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they farm the air.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Let the wild rumpus start!

There's no place like home.

I’ll eat you up! I love you so!

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.

Civilizations arise in areas where agriculture is possible, leading to technological advancements and complex societies.

The fates of human societies are not determined by the inherent capabilities of people, but by their environments.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.

In the end, the journey is what matters, not the destination.

There is a certain magic in a child's world that we often forget as adults.

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The boy was not a boy, but a man in the making.

To be a sailor is to embrace the sea, to know its depths and dangers.

Freedom is a dangerous thing; it can lead to chaos.

What is lost can never be regained, not even in memory.

We are all strangers on a train, but we have to decide how to act.

The mind is a dangerous place, full of dark corners and unexpected turns.

Murder is a crime, but the true crime lies in the act of betrayal.

I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

The only thing that makes me feel better is to see someone else suffer.

It is the ambiguity of morality that interests me.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

The sea was not a stranger; it was a friend.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

You can't be the best at everything, but you can be the best at being yourself.

I have a lot of opinions, and I’m not afraid to share them.

I’m pretty much fucked. That’s my considered opinion. Fucked.

If a hunk of metal is a robot, then a hunk of metal is a robot.

I’ll science the shit out of this.

You can’t just sit around and wait for someone to save you.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.

What we know matters, but who we are matters more.

You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

You don't need to be in the same room to be a great team.

The future of work is about getting things done, not about where you do them.