Lollipop Shoes Quotes

#1. No,' Rambert said bitterly, 'you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of ... of abstractions.

Albert Camus

#2. We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#3. I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!

Emo Philips

#4. You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.

William Law

#5. He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that's what it took.

Alan Furst

#6. So you see [the act of teaching] teaches me also, and is as good as a general review of what I've learned, in a pleasanter way than going over it alone.

Louisa May Alcott

#7. The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

A.S. Byatt

#8. I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.'

Josh Radnor

#9. Tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively.

Teju Cole

#10. If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

Bruce Lee

#11. I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead ... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is ... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

Sam Taylor-Wood