Christopher Conrad > Christopher's Quotes

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.”
― David Grossman

“Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

“I am a sexually confident woman who made a video for someone she cared about. If someone I knew saw the images and judged me negatively for making them, I feel confident that the problem is with them, not with me... So when I sext with my boyfriend, the main goal is to get us off. But it's also my little way of reassuring myself that I decide what to do with my body, and I get to decide which risky behaviors are worth taking.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“For once in their lives, they loved themselves.”
― Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

“As long as there have been women," Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.”
― Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of

“It ensured that I'd never think that patriotism and dissent were opposites.”
― Bill McKibben, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

“None of them was willing to be a girl," he said. "You can see why not."
"I know, right? I don't blame them," she said with a hard edge to her voice. "Being a girl is the pits, trust me.”
― Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?"
"Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.”
― J.D. Robb, Promises in Death

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Friendship... is born at the moment when one man says to another" What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“You may not be able to afford the time, expense, or commitment demanded by a four-year degree”
― Nikhil Abraham, Coding All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies

“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
― John Adams

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“We can stop behaving against our own best judgment and pursue our goals and aspirations without ongoing sabotage.”
― Glenn Livingston, Never Binge Again: Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person

“Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,--all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”
― Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea

“I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck

“Writing's fun--you can do it at home in your pajamas.”
― Shirley Gordon

“I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”
― Maurice Sendak