If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
—Yogi Berra
It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.
—Michael Bassey Johnson
You missed me? Five months you don't say one word to me. Not a text, not an email, nothing. That doesn't sound like you missed me.
—Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
—Mark Victor Hansen
To him, I was a commitment that had become more of a burden than an asset, and his time was just too precious to waste.
—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever
Did you ever have a night that just…seemed to change everything? And everything is different afterward?
—Morgan Matson in Second Chance Summer
We're irrevocably tied together by history, a history that can never be erased. Even if you want to deny it, even it you want to pretend it never existed, it will always be a part of you. It will always, in some way, define who you are.
—Susane Colasanti in Something Like Fate
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.
—Roy Blount Jr.
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
—Beryl Pfizer
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
—George Bernard Shaw
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
—André Gide
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
—William Hazlitt
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
—Sophocles
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
—Jean Paul