Top 100 Alice In Quotes

#1. That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #1807
#2. Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #2616
#3. I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he would have his answer. In my heaven it bloomed. In my heaven geranium petals swirled in eddies up to my waist. On Earth nothing happened ... I stood alone in a sea of bright petals.

Alice Sebold

Alice In Quotes #2666
#4. Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

Simon Pegg

Alice In Quotes #3609
#5. Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir
' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept

Lewis Carroll

Alice In Quotes #4571
#6. For a very long time I believed that when we left our home, we left my mother as well. Where our village had stood the burned fields would again become green and her flesh would be in every blade of grass.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #5061
#7. I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #8042
#8. His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.

Alice Munro

Alice In Quotes #8981
#9. There was tremendous affection in Billy's eyes, or at least they held a tremendous offer of affection, a tremendous willingness to find whomever he was talking to bright and witty and better than most

Alice McDermott

Alice In Quotes #11709
#10. Like your sweet, affectionate house cat, Alice Dahl is easy to underestimate. It's not until the songbirds in the yard show up eviscerated on the front porch that you realize you should've kept that bell collar on her - because those poor birds never even saw her coming.

Elle Lothlorien

Alice In Quotes #13065
#11. When I look at my books I feel like Alice in the closing pages of Wonderland, when the cards all rise up and overwhelm her.

Linda Grant

Alice In Quotes #13186
#12. But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll

Shweta Ganesh Kumar

Alice In Quotes #14216
#13. It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

Alice Waters

Alice In Quotes #17006
#14. I went on to say that no lies, after all, were as strong as the lies we tell ourselves and then unfortunately have to keep telling to make the whole puke stay down in our stomachs, eating us alive, as he would find out soon enough.

Alice Munro

Alice In Quotes #17562
#15. Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

Sylvia Plath

Alice In Quotes #17758
#16. So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.

Alice Lowe

Alice In Quotes #18146
#17. The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.

Alice Morse Earle

Alice In Quotes #18736
#18. Having been familiar with "drunk" once or twice myself, that lick just came to me - and yeah, it sounded very drunk, so I presented it to Alice [Cooper]. It felt like he wrote the lyrics in about a minute.

Johnny Depp

Alice In Quotes #20872
#19. A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #21193
#20. I feel like I'm standing in the wake of a volcano erruption.

Alice Sebold

Alice In Quotes #22082
#21. My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains ... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

Madi Diaz

Alice In Quotes #22668
#22. When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Alice Hamilton

Alice In Quotes #25288
#23. He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #26947
#24. Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!

Lewis Carroll

Alice In Quotes #27039
#25. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

Lewis Carroll

Alice In Quotes #27647
#26. It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Alice Hamilton

Alice In Quotes #28453
#27. That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Alice Oswald

Alice In Quotes #34212
#28. All they did was stir up desire, and longing, and hopelessness, a trio of miserable caged wildcats that had been installed in me without my permission, or at least without my understanding how long they would live and how vicious they would be.

Alice Munro

Alice In Quotes #34384
#29. The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

Alice Miller

Alice In Quotes #34937
#30. We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

Alice Waters

Alice In Quotes #36991
#31. I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Alice Sebold

Alice In Quotes #38956
#32. But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #39522
#33. She stands, her skirt taking a moment to fall down her leg, and I follow her, because right now she's my white rabbit...

Lia Hills

Alice In Quotes #40112
#34. I fell into the water with a large splash and sunk like a stone. My feet guided the way as I drifted further into the murky depths.
Down.
Down.
Down.

Brynn Myers

Alice In Quotes #40611
#35. It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls came to hunt. The sky was now the color Elv liked best - a tender dark blue, falling to earth like ashes.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #40826
#36. The morning arrived the way Alice imagined a whisper would: in tendrils of gray and threads of gold, quietly, quietly. The sky was illuminated with great care and deliberation, and she leaned back to watch it bloom.

Tahereh Mafi

Alice In Quotes #43029
#37. Like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.

Lauren Oliver

Alice In Quotes #43793
#38. There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

Alice Cooper

Alice In Quotes #45798
#39. Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

Alice Meynell

Alice In Quotes #47527
#40. If one of these, if a hundred of them, a thousand, came too soon or failed to thrive or were born incomplete somehow, born blue or ill made or with reason's taut string already snapped, it was of little matter in the long history of God's bustling. There

Alice McDermott

Alice In Quotes #48109
#41. Oh yes, I admire books. I still do. They can preserve a truth for twice a thousand years and teach it to any who has the skill and cares to read it. They can also fix a lie in stone forever. But worse still, they - the books - can be about nothing at all. Nothing real.

Alice Borchardt

Alice In Quotes #48609
#42. A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.

Alice Oswald

Alice In Quotes #49380
#43. I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #49820
#44. But when she was finished running away, when she just went on, what would she put in his place?

Alice Munro

Alice In Quotes #49824
#45. When you look in the mirror, remember that who you see looking back at you is a piece of your highest self, the Divine.

Alice Hocker

Alice In Quotes #51158
#46. Murder in and of itself was not engaging; it was the drive to kill, the human factor, the fervors and furies motivating the dreadful act that rendered it compelling. Alice

Kate Morton

Alice In Quotes #51612
#47. It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Alice Hamilton

Alice In Quotes #54011
#48. In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

Alice Lowe

Alice In Quotes #55473
#49. I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Alice Foote MacDougall

Alice In Quotes #57795
#50. There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy.

Alice Kuipers

Alice In Quotes #58475
#51. ...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted above the village in a shining cloud of scales.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #63398
#52. Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #63585
#53. Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.

Alice Dreger

Alice In Quotes #64671
#54. I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, "mother, let's kill her. "That's the only choice.

Alice Sebold

Alice In Quotes #68637
#55. You like to act as if you care about nothing and if you carry on like that then you're going to drown in the abyss you have imagined for yourself.

Alice Oseman

Alice In Quotes #71971
#56. I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #74643
#57. If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #76851
#58. I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #80646
#59. Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight.

Joseph Delaney

Alice In Quotes #82385
#60. I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Alice Waters

Alice In Quotes #83466
#61. The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Alice McDermott

Alice In Quotes #83940
#62. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

Alice Childress

Alice In Quotes #85364
#63. Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Miller

Alice In Quotes #86097
#64. Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

Alice Waters

Alice In Quotes #87342
#65. He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life.

Alice McDermott

Alice In Quotes #88527
#66. When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.

Alice Waters

Alice In Quotes #89921
#67. My secret world had been invaded, and the attractive figure of Tiptree - he did strike several people as attractive - was revealed as nothing but an old lady in Virginia.

Alice Hastings Bradley

Alice In Quotes #93544
#68. She had needed the time to know that this love would not destroy her, and I had, I now knew, given her that time, could give it, for it was what I had in great supply.

Alice Sebold

Alice In Quotes #93803
#69. My wife always knows exactly," he said. There was a bit of tobacco on his wet lip. "But that's probably because she only lets me do it twice a year, Valentine's and my birthday, so it's not hard to figure." He stepped out the door and then turned to say, "I got two kids born in

Alice McDermott

Alice In Quotes #94953
#70. His death notice included the mention that in 1880, he had married Alice in Wonderland. I like to think he would have been pleased at that, but the truth is he was the only one to whom this didn't matter at all.

Melanie Benjamin

Alice In Quotes #100427
#71. I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #100663
#72. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

Alice Munro

Alice In Quotes #102557
#73. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #102853
#74. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Alice Munro

Alice In Quotes #102984
#75. Then there was silence, the air like ice. Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some kind of small untidy evergreens rolled up like sleepy bears. The frozen lake not level but mounded along the shore, as if the waves had turned to ice in the act of falling.

Alice Munro

Alice In Quotes #103213
#76. Charles Adams was an amiable, accomplished & bewitching young Man; of so dazzling a Beauty that none but Eagles could look him in the Face.

Jane Austen

Alice In Quotes #103581
#77. You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical," he went on. "I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream.
-Lucien to Alice

Gaelen Foley

Alice In Quotes #103929
#78. I had taken this time to fall in love instead - inn love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt inn death - the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human - feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of nagivating the unknown.

Alice Sebold

Alice In Quotes #106821
#79. HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #111625
#80. What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams ... conversations, nothing more.

Alice Englert

Alice In Quotes #111827
#81. Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing
turn your toes out when you walk
And remember who you are!

Lewis Carroll

Alice In Quotes #112249
#82. Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #112936
#83. One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

Alice Morse Earle

Alice In Quotes #114841
#84. There was so much light in the world we knew we would never be able to count it all.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #115126
#85. She believed in the principle of enoughness."
from "About Alice

Calvin Trillin

Alice In Quotes #115219
#86. Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us ... leave. And if that happens, it's amazing the lengths we'll go to, to get them back.

Mary Alice

Alice In Quotes #115771
#87. In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

Alice Sebold

Alice In Quotes #120710
#88. It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Alice Morse Earle

Alice In Quotes #122003
#89. Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

Alice Miller

Alice In Quotes #122349
#90. Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Alice Miller

Alice In Quotes #124171
#91. What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.

Alice Hoffman

Alice In Quotes #124457
#92. I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

Alice Notley

Alice In Quotes #124976
#93. Then he noticed her boys. They were standing side by side at the edge of the driveway, their plastic guns still in their hands and their faces pale and forlorn beneath the toy helmets, his own Tony, God bless him, with a comforting arm around each.

Alice McDermott

Alice In Quotes #126393
#94. Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began in a great hurry; 'and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well
' 'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.

Lewis Carroll

Alice In Quotes #128461
#95. In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #131913
#96. I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just ... womanish.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #132522
#97. I think we have to own the fears that we
have of each other, and then, in some
practical way, some daily way, figure
out how to see people differently
than the way we were brought up to.

Alice Walker

Alice In Quotes #133703
#98. It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.

Alice Morse Earle

Alice In Quotes #138333
#99. Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Alice Sebold

Alice In Quotes #139760
#100. Like a fable, Night when a Milky Way goes through the other Milky Way
My hope is standing
He walked with the speed of memories

Lewis Carroll

Alice In Quotes #143054

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