When three women join together, the stars come out in broad daylight.
-- Talugu proverb

As a woman, my country is the whole world.
-- Virginia Woolf

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
-- Sylvia Plath

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
-- Albert Einstein

If I want to show off my muscles, I will shave my head.
-- Leanne Fada

I am at my meanest when I feel the greatest tenderness.
-- Jane Bowles

I don't have the time every day to put on makeup. I need that time to clean my rifle.
-- Henriette Mentell

No trumpets sound when the important decisions are made. Destiny is made known silently.
-- Agnes de Mille

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
-- Jorge luis Borges

When I'm near the end of a good book, I need to sleep in the same room with it.
-- Joan Didion

Read in order to live.
-- Gustave Flaubert

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.
-- Michael Kinsley

Never mistake wisdom for knowledge. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
-- Sandra Carey

I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars make me dream.
-- Vincent Van Gogh

The moment a book is lent, I begin to miss it.
-- Anatole Broyard

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
-- Vincent Starrett

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
-- Martha Graham

To survive is not enough... to simply exist is not enough.
-- Star Trek, the Next Generation

Do something today which the world may speak of hereafter.
-- Admiral Collingwood

The important thing is to not stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein

If there is something to pardon in everyone, there is also something to condemn.
-- Friedrich Nietzche

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
-- Oscar Wilde

Half my life is an act of revision.
-- John Irving

Do one thing every day that scares you.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Whenver I have to choose between two evils, I like to try the one I haven't tried before.
-- Mae West

Trust your demon.
-- Roger Zelazny

The little things are infinitely the most important.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a does of common sense.
-- Chapman Cohen

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
-- Jonathan Larson

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-- Joseph Campbell

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
-- Oscar Wilde

The longer I live, the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.
-- Elizabeth van Armin

Success and failure are equally disastrous.
-- Tennessee Williams

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
-- George Orwell

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
-- George Herbert

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
-- Oscar Wilde

It's not the size of your feet that matters, it's the size of your feet.
-- Tobin

It takes a lot less time, and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late.
-- Mediocrity, www.despair.com

Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.
-- Procrastination, http://www.despair.com/

Question everything.
-- Georg Christopher Lichtenberg

What fresh hell is this?
-- Dorothy Parker

It is good to have friends, even in Hell.
-- Spanish Proverb

I wish to have one copy of every book in the world.
-- Sir Thomas Phillips

A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
-- Stephanie Mallame

A witty syaing proves nothing.
-- Voltaire

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.
-- Mother Jones

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.
-- Grace Paley

Excess on occasion is exhilarating.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

A home without books is like a room without windows.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-- Logan Pearsell Smith

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and bring forth words which were better unspoken.
-- The Odyssey, Homer

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
-- Maxine Waters

I cannot live without books.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Shut up and drink more beer.
-- Doug & friends

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
-- Ernest Hemingway

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book ahould be a ball of light in one's hand.
-- Ezra Pound

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
-- Ken Hakuta

This is the part that's less fun. When there isn't any screaming.
-- Evil Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Can't you see that I bring the gift of oblivion? I promise it won't hurt... much.
-- Callisto, Xena, Warrior Princess

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
-- Douglas Adams

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
-- Edith Sitwell

Yesterday's future is today.
-- A.R.G, South Park

All dressed up and no one to kill.
-- Ares, Xena, Warrior Princess

How I hate happy endings.
-- Ares, Xena, Warrior Princess

Ordinarily, he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
-- Heinrich Heine

You can't always get what you want, but sometimes, you get what you need.
-- You Can't Always Get What You Want, The Rolling Stones

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
-- Charles de Secondant

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
-- Henry J. Tillman

'Cause your friends don't dance
and if they don't dance
well they're no friends of mine.

-- Safety Dance, Men without Hats

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
-- Henny Youngman

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
-- Isaac Asimov

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
-- Idiocy, www.despair.com

Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy

I always have a quotation for everything. It saves original thought.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers

My favorite animal is steak.
-- Fran Lebowitz

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
-- Alan Dean Foster

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
--Euripides

Fire bad, tree pretty.
-- Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer