Albert Einstein Quotes

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole live believing that it is stupid."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." (I love this one!)

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." (This one just made me laugh.)

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."


I was really surprised to discover how many of these can be applied to writers and their work. Dr. Einstein had a great understanding of the importance of imagination.

Do you have a favorite Einstein quote? Did any of these resonate with you?

Favorite Quotes About Books

"Books, pocket-size jewels, open up like doors to worlds you never knew existed."

~ Antonio D'alfonso

"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."

~ Neil Gaiman

"To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones."
~ Will Thomas

"All good and true book lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed. No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over."

~ Eugene Field

"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it."

~ Marie de Sevigne

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."

~ Paul Sweeney

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."

~ Mason Cooley

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."

~ Kathleen Norris

"Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books that he can read in a lifetime."

~ Henry Holt

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'"

~ Helen Exley

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

~ Frederick Douglas

What is your favorite book-related quote?

Favorite Movie/TV Quotes

I'm sure by now most of my followers know that I love collecting quotes. I get them everywhere, so I thought I'd share some of my personal favorites with you all! I thought about doing a post of my favorite quotes in general... but I realized that was way too broad of a category, so I narrowed it down to TV and movie quotes. I catch them everywhere - I can walk past a TV that's playing a movie I'm not even watching, and as I walk by hear a great quote that I just have to add to my quote book. So here are a few of my favorites.

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"I will use all my powers of persuasion. If that doesn't work I'll hit her in the head."
~ Bob Brown, from 'The Unit'

"I seen your Adam's apple bobbin' up and down, and that's how I knowed you was singin' opera."
~Gomer Pyle, from 'Gomer Pyle'

"I don't make things complicated, that's just the way they get, all by themselves."
~ -unknown character- from 'Lethal Weapon'

"I find that smuggling is the life for me, and I would be happy to kill your friend the maggot."
~Edmond Dantes, from 'The Count of Monte Cristo'

"'Eccentric' means 'loopy with money'."
~Bob the Tomato, from 'Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush'

"Adventures are never fun when you're having them."
~Sharona Flemming, from 'Monk'

"Thanks for helping me and for... spitting on me."
~Clifford, from 'Wild Hearts Can't be Broken'

"I would like to think that, given the circumstances, I've been extremely forgiving up 'til now."
~Mike Wazowski, from 'Monsters Inc.'

"You keep using that word..."
~Inigo Montoya, from 'The Princess Bride'

What is your favorite movie or TV quote?

Journaling - Day 19 of NaNo

Total Word Count: 26,333

Still behind, I know. But making headway! (Or at least, not falling any farther behind.)

I came across this quote today:

"A novel is a work of creative imagination and to write it an author's mind must be completely at peace."

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man had obviously never done NaNoWriMo

L. M. Montgomery in Quotes

Lucy Maud Montgomery ~ November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942
Author of 20 novels, including the world-renowned Anne of Green Gables series (and my personal favorite, Emily of New Moon).

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On Life and Human Nature:

"I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again--there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have--for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book."

"Truth exists, only lies have to be invented."

"A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light."

"Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart."

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think that a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it."

"It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?"

"At seventeen dreams do satisfy you because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on." (from Anne of Avonlea)

"One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once." (from Anne of Avonlea)

On Writers and Writing:

"If it's in you to climb, you must--there are those who must lift their eyes to the hills--they can't breathe properly in the valleys." ~Mr. Carpenter (speaking of the unexplainable drive to write, in Emily of New Moon)

"My pen shall heal, not hurt." ~Emily Starr (from Emily of New Moon)

"The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland."

"You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?"

"All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness."

The Pen is Mightier...

"There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter." ~Napoleon

"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as those of the sword need swiftness." ~Julie Ward Howe

"Oh, nature's noblest gift--my gray goose quill!" ~Byron

"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen." ~Martin Luther

Silence

"In what he leaves unsaid I discover a master of style." ~Schiller


"He can never speak well, who knows not how to hold his peace." ~Plutarch

Do you know any examples of writers who know how to skillfully keep silent?

Thought for the Weekend

"No story is the same to us after the lapse of time: or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters." ~George Eliot

Do you have a favorite story or book that's changed with you over the years?