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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Mirrors

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Reading

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

Foolishness Technology Generations

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

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

Albert Einstein

Genius Foolishness

That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Helmut Schmidt

Foolishness Intelligence Doubt

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

Universe Humanity Foolishness

Brom: "Because you can't argue with all of the fools in the world."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon

Foolishness Argument

I'm Starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

John Green in Paper Towns

Mirrors

The past is like a broken mirror, as you piece it together you cut yourself. Your image keeps shifting and you change with it.

Max Payne in Max Payne

Past Mirrors

Who can gaze into the mirror without becoming evil? The mirror does not reflect evil, but creates it.

Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell - 2: Innocence

Mirrors

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Love Mirrors

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Pablo Picasso

Drawing Photography Mirrors

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Rose Kennedy

Age Mirrors

Gary: "Even your Pikachu feels sorry for you, Ash. I've never seen anyone so pathetic."
Misty: "Have you tried a mirror?"

Misty in Pokémon

Mirrors

You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.

Bree Van De Kamp in Desperate Housewives - Season 1 Episode 12

Women Breakup

When a woman quits on a man, she either got enough of him or she didn't get enough from him.

Marcel Aymé

Women Relationships

A jealous female can be tricked into everything.

Hook in Peter Pan

Women Jealousy

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

Yves Saint Laurent

Women Hugs

A woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.

Coco Chanel

Women Age

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free, until they find someone just as wild to run with.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 18

Women Relationships

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

Women Minutes

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Johnny Depp

Parents Birth Father & Daughter

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalms - 139,14

Birth Confirmation

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Birth

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

Birth

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Family Parents Mother Birth

Don't worry, it takes more than an infection to prevent a baby from being born healthy.

Moskow in Money Heist - Season 1 Episode 6

Birth Babies

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Tom Robbins in Jitterbug Perfume

Birth

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Change Motivation Minutes

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries

Ideas Motivation

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

Courage Risk Motivation

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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