The best Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Writing Inspiration

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Words Reading

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Writing

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Death Wealth & Richness

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Conscience Morality

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Granada

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Learning

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

Alcohol

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ambition

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

Joseph Rudyard Kipling Joseph Conrad Books Imagination Reading

Jerry: "I wish that shotgun was my p-nis."
Beth: "If it were, you could call me Ernest Hemingway."

Beth Smith in Rick and Morty - Season 1 Episode 6

Ernest Hemingway once wrote: "The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

William Somerset in Seven

World

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Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

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Writing Poems Inspiration

A kiss is something you need both hands for.

Mark Twain

Kissing Hands

'You can go home now,' Tom told us.
'We'll meet next week. Then we can rob somebody and kill some people.'

Mark Twain in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 8 Episode 18

Alcohol Toasts

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

Jerry: "I wanted to ask if it's okay with you if I make myself throw up the cookie."
Beth: "If it makes you feel better and you can do it quietly, yes, but don't hand that advice down to summer."

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Summer Smith

If I wanted the government in my house, I'd buy Alexa.

Rick Sanchez in Rick and Morty - Season 6 Episode 10

Amazon

Gentlemen, gentlemen. I'll never understand. All these books. A world of knowledge at your fingertips. And what do you do? You play poker all night.

William Somerset in Seven

Books

"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

Books

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

Banksy in Cut It Out

Reading

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Mother

The aim of writing is to make others see.

Joseph Conrad

Writing

Trust is earned - I can't just magically hand it over.

Elena Gilbert in The Vampire Diaries - Season 1 Episode 4

Trust

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

Beginning

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

Love Hurting Sad Quotes

Night changes many thoguhts.

Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Night

If you go to sleep at night, you lay your head on the pillow and fall asleep. Where are you even just during this time? Nevertheless, you open your eyes again.

Bob Marley

Sleeping

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Letters Sentences

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

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