Sometimes I miss the old me.
—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath
That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.
—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
—Will Rogers
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
My work is a game, a very serious game.
—M. C. Escher
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
—Sally Kempton
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
—Rita Rudner
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
—Fran Lebowitz
Books to the ceiling,/ Books to the sky,/ My pile of books is a mile high./ How I love them! How I need them!/ I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
—Arnold Lobel
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
—Amelia Earhart
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
—Eugene Ionesco
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
—William Wordsworth
The groves were God's first temples.
—William C. Bryant
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
—Black Elk
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
—Pablo Picasso