Quotes

I love quotes, in case you couldn't tell by the quotes in all of my posts.  Well here is to the quotes, the good, the bad, and the ugly ones that make my blog:

I want you guys to forget everything you think you know about the games. Last year was child's play. This year, you're dealing with all experienced killers.

-Catching Fire, 2013

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

-Ernest Hemingway 

“Sometimes people are beautiful.  Not in looks.  Not in what they say.  Just in what they are.” 

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” 
-Charles M. Schulz

Clary Fray: You play that piano as if you've lost your only love.

Jace Wayland: Unfortunately, my one true love remains myself.

Clary Fray: Well, at least you don't have to worry about rejection.

Jace Wayland: Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.

-Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, 2013

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” 

-Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

Don't change because a new year is coming up but change for your own personal growth no matter what resolutions you make, they start with you.

Cooking is like love. It should be enter into with abandon or not at all.

-Harriet Van Horne 

Eight men rode into canyon... I dug seven graves. Horse says, you are spirit walker: a man who has been to the other side and returned, a man who cannot be killed at all...

-The Lone Ranger, 2013

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

-Elizabeth Taylor 

We all start off in life with a dream, don't we? For a tennis player, it's being in the final of a Grand Slam, Centre Court, a high lob... a smash. Game, set and match. You're a champion. You're number one. But for most tennis players, that's all it ever is: a dream. The reality is another story. 

-Wimbledon, 2004

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.” 
-Jane Austen


It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
-Tony Robbins

Every man carries a badge. Some symbol of his allegiance. His were the scars of a boxer who'd used his fists to climb the social ladder of the mob. A Jew who'd gained the respect of wops through a homicidal lust. He'd sworn an oath of violence. And his master? His own insatiable will to power. He wanted to own this town. His name was Mickey Cohen.
-Gangster Squad, 2013


“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” 
-Bob Hope

“It might be fun."
"Love's supposed to be." Laura smiled. "When it's not hell.” 
-Nora Roberts, Daring to Dream


“Circumstances change. Bend or break...” 
-Nora Roberts, Holding the Dream


“She stepped closer to the edge to watch the waves beat against rock. She felt that way, she mused. Battered by forces that were beyond her control, lapped in a violent, endless war with no choice but to stand.” 
-Nora Roberts, Finding the Dream


“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but - mainly - to ourselves.” 

-Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” 

-Langston Hughes