Quotes For January 16

#1. Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.

John Green

#2. As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

Georgette Heyer

#3. I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

Blake Mycoskie

#4. I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

Tamara Taylor

#5. A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.

Anne Fadiman

#6. Guidance happens when we create the space in our minds to allow our angels to speak up.
Set your ego aside and listen!

Catherine Carrigan

#7. I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

John Darnielle

#8. Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.

Matt Mullenweg

#9. Why is it you never know how much someone means to you until they are gone?

Sheena Hutchinson

#10. Born 4th January 1935. Left school at 16 with one 'O' level in geography ( so I know my way round the world), but continued my education at the University of Real Life, than which, you will agree, there is none better.

William Donaldson

#11. I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Ethel Merman