Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.
—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
—George Eliot
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
—Gordon R. Dickson
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
—David T. Wolf
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
—Benjamin Disraeli
If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride
We fall forward to succeed.
—Mary Kay Ash
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
—Red Skelton
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
—Robert Benchley
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
—Richard Feynman
It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.
—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
—David Wilkerson
If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
—Marcelene Cox
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
—Robert Wilensky