“I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow
if I fail, if I succeed at least I did as I believe.”
- Whitney Houston
Category Archives: quote
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 609
“My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.”
-Whitney Houston
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 608
“You’re so eeeeeeeeeeeeeeasy on the eyes.”
- Shea Seger
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 607
“What’s past is prologue.”
- William Shakespeare
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 606
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 605
“There is no reason to fear the wind if your stack of hay is well tied”
- Irish proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 604
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.”
- Tom Stoppard
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 603
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“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”
- Madonna
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 602
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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
- Robert Stevenson for via @Phawaz
“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now,
I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”
- Anne Rice
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 600
“Do, What you’re going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.”
- Skitch Henderson
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 599
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 598
“A flower falls, even though we love it;
and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”
- Dogen
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 597
“[Chorus]
This girl’s prepared for war
And as for love
Who knows what it’s good for
Except for crying
Yourself to sleep at night
And for blowing down
Your little heart”
- Bic Runga on “This Girl’s Prepared For War” from Belle.
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 596
“And in the end, the love you take
Is equal to the love you make…”
- The Beatles from “The End”
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 595
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“There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” – Jean Anouilh
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 594
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“Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say ’cause if you’re not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”
- Ani DiFranco
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 593
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Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 592
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“Red is obviously such a stimulating color, and it has so many connotations.”
- P.J. Harvey
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 591
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“A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection,
it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you’re past it.”
- Doug Coupland
