[Gallagher]

hey hey hey, it's the galla, hitting y'all up with new event items, and more importantly, a new game to play if you've gotta catch up on your collection!

Rules are simple:

• Below is a list of subjects
• Find a quote about a subject and post it, and what it's from
• Each quote will earn you 5 books
• You can submit 1 quote for every subject

Easy, right? Then I'll hit you with it quick!



FIND ME A QUOTE ABOUT:

• Ducks
• Trees
• Love
• Melancholy
• Food
• Books
• Technology
• Fashion
• Chickens
• Spoons
• Mind
• Anxiety
• Time
• Snakes
• Stars
• Eyes
• Heart
• Cows
• Baseball
• Connection
• Sun
• Earth
• Winter
• Bath
• Medicine
• Space
• Ocean
• Longing
• Heat
• Touch
• Games
• Art
• Squirrels
• Reading
• Holidays

Previous Quotes:

Anxiety

Originally Posted by Den

“Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

Originally Posted by mdom

“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”- Alain de Bottom

Originally Posted by Ruby

A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote. Mel Brooks

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
— T.S. Eliot

Art

Originally Posted by Ruby

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Baseball

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”
― Leo Durocher

Originally Posted by mdom

“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” - Leo Durocher

Originally Posted by Den

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”
― Hank Aaron

Originally Posted by Ruby

Cricket is basically baseball on valium. Robin Williams

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father.”
― Tom Verducci

Bath

Originally Posted by Den

“There is no problem on earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”
― Lemony Snicket

Originally Posted by mdom

“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”- Lemony Snicket

Originally Posted by Ruby

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. Woody Allen

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

You look like you got more of a bath than the car. I never thought washing a car would be so hard, but after watching you for the last fifteen minutes, I'm convinced it should be an Olympic sport.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

Books

Originally Posted by Den

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

Originally Posted by mdom

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”- Groucho Marx

Originally Posted by Ruby

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
― Groucho Marx

Chickens

Originally Posted by Den

“Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”
― Brad Pitt

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”
― George Carlin

Originally Posted by mdom

“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”- George Carlin

Originally Posted by Ruby

People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone! Karl Pilkington

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.
— Michael Palin

Connection

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Originally Posted by Den

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

Originally Posted by Ruby

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection. Clint Eastwood

Originally Posted by mdom

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”- James Baldwin

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

A relieved grin filled up Thorne's face. "We're having another moment, aren't we?"
"If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are."
― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

Cows

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?”
― Bill Watterson

Originally Posted by Den

“Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.”
― Craig Ferguson

Originally Posted by Ruby

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. James Dean

Originally Posted by mdom

“I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.”- Rick Riordan

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

"Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.
— Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

Ducks

Originally Posted by Den

“Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

"Don't take me under your wing and tell me that scent is duck sauce."
― Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?

Originally Posted by mdom

“Never trust a duck.” by Cassandra Clare

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

Originally Posted by Ruby

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. Jules Renard

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

Earth

Originally Posted by Den

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Originally Posted by Ruby

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Khalil Gibran

Originally Posted by mdom

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”- Kurt Vonnegut

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean."
— Arthur C. Clarke

Eyes

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
― Cathy Guiswite

Originally Posted by Den

“I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
― Anne Sexton

Originally Posted by Ruby

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space. Marilyn Monroe

Originally Posted by mdom

“Shut your eyes and see.”- James Joyce

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

"I've noticed that very few people are scary once they've been poked in the eye."
- Dr. Temperance Brennan, Bones, "The Man in the Morgue"

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

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

Fashion

Originally Posted by Den

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
― Coco Chanel

Originally Posted by mdom

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”- Oscar Wilde

Originally Posted by Biomecha

"What's my style is not your style, and I don’t see how you can define it. It’s something that expresses who you are in your own way." - Iris Apfel

Originally Posted by Ruby

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. Coco Chanel

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
— Sophia Loren

Food

Originally Posted by Den

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

"Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

Originally Posted by mdom

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”- Orson Wells

Originally Posted by Ruby

I like good food, and I'll eat until I'm full. Caroline Flack

Originally Posted by Biomecha

“Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.”
― Jo Brand

Games

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Whether they’re family or friends, manipulators are difficult to escape from. Give in to their demands and they’ll be happy enough, but if you develop a spine and start saying no, it will inevitably bring a fresh round of head games and emotional blackmail. You’ll notice that breaking free from someone else’s dominance will often result in them accusing you of being selfish. Yes, you’re selfish, because you’ve stopped doing what they want you to do for them. Wow. Can these people hear themselves?!”
― Rosie Blythe, The Princess Guide to Life

Originally Posted by Ruby

I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player. Quentin Tarantino

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
― Oscar Wilde

Heart

Originally Posted by Den

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
― Robert Marley

Originally Posted by Ruby

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent Van Gogh

Originally Posted by mdom

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”- Zelda Fitzgerald

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

Heat

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
— J.R.R. Tolkien

Originally Posted by Ruby

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? Steven Wright

Holiday

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and
abbeys on their sacred sites, the Vatican had been wont to “Christianize” ancient, pagan celebrations in an if-you-can’t-beat-them-and-don’t-wantto-
join-them-rename-it-and-pretend-it-was-yours-all-along campaign.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Faefever

Originally Posted by Ruby

The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food. Rachel Hollis

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.
— Terry Pratchett

Longing

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
— Helen Keller

Originally Posted by Ruby

I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. Laura Dern

Love

Originally Posted by Den

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

"Emori, you know you can correct your defects here."
"I would, if I had any."
― The 100, Red Sky At Morning

Originally Posted by mdom

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” - Anaïs Nin

Originally Posted by Ruby

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle

Medicine

Originally Posted by Den

“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
― Hippocrates

Originally Posted by Ruby

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Lord Byron

Originally Posted by mdom

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”- Voltaire

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

If tar, hard liquor and sauna do not cure, the disease is fatal.
— Finnish Proverb

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?”
― George Carlin

Melancholy

Originally Posted by Den

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

Originally Posted by mdom

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”- Virgina Woolf

Originally Posted by Ruby

I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting. Garrett Dillahunt

Mind

Originally Posted by Den

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
― Terry Pratchett

Originally Posted by mdom

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”- George Bernard Shaw

Originally Posted by Ruby

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
― James Joyce

Ocean

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
— Mahatma Gandhi

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

Originally Posted by Ruby

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. Steven Wright

Reading

Originally Posted by Ruby

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
— C.S. Lewis

Space

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

Originally Posted by Ruby

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal

Spoons

Originally Posted by Den

“He didn't think his mother's brother used drugs and yet the number of spoons and trap house Feng Shui seemed to keep the option open.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Originally Posted by mdom

“Spoons are excellent. Sort of like forks, only not as stabby.”- Neil Gaiman

Originally Posted by Ruby

I've got a beautiful kitchen, which looks like a '60s version of space, with silver chrome, orange glass work surfaces, and brown leather, and it's entirely visual and has little function. I've hardly got any knives, and there's only one wooden spoon and one saucepan. But I think I've got a cheese grater, so that's good. Noel Fielding

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
— John Mayer

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

"SPOOOOOOOON!"
- The Tick

Snakes

Originally Posted by Den

“We don't see snakes because they wear suits, but we see butterflies because they wear pyjamas.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

Originally Posted by Ruby

I love snakes. Anitta

Originally Posted by mdom

“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”- Buddha

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
— Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Squirrel

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

Originally Posted by Ruby

I like squirrels. They're so adventurous. Gabby Douglas

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

She's as nutty as squirrel poo.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Stars

Originally Posted by Den

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Originally Posted by Ruby

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh

Originally Posted by mdom

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”- Dostoevsky

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Originally Posted by Biomecha

The stars at night are big and bright
(clap, clap, clap, clap),
Deep in the heart of Texas. - Nickel Creek

Sun

Originally Posted by Den

“Tell me the story..
About how the sun loved the moon so much..
That she died every night..
Just to let him breathe...”
― Hanako Ishii

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse

Originally Posted by Ruby

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. Frank Lloyd Wright

Originally Posted by mdom

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”- Herman Hesse

Originally Posted by Biomecha

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. - Galileo Galilei

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Whisky is liquid sunshine.
― George Bernard Shaw

Technology

Originally Posted by Den

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

Originally Posted by mdom

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”- Aldous Huxley

Originally Posted by Ruby

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by. Tim Burton

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.
— P.C. Cast, Awakened

Time

Originally Posted by Den

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Originally Posted by mdom

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”- Terry Pratchett

Originally Posted by Ruby

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
— Lemony Snicket

Originally Posted by Biomecha

Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin

Touch

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Originally Posted by Ruby

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller

Trees

Originally Posted by Den

“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

Originally Posted by mdom

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.” - Khalil Gibran

Originally Posted by Ruby

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees. Pat Paulsen

Winter

Originally Posted by Den

“Winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Originally Posted by Ruby

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens

Originally Posted by mdom

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”- Victor Hugo

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

“Dementia. Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease? It was a name befitting a goddess: Dementia, who caused her sister Demeter to forget to turn winter into spring.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

[Den]

“Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

*leaves this here*

[Gallagher]

a strong start! keep it up!

[Death by Mirrors]

Did someone say books?

"Don't take me under your wing and tell me that scent is duck sauce."
― Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?

[Gallagher]

another good one!

[Den]

“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

*marks tree quotes off their list*

[Gallagher]

every entry i get, the more subjects i add

waiting in anticipation for someone to give me a big quote dump

[Den]

Ask, and ye shall receive.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
― Coco Chanel

“Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”
― Brad Pitt

“He didn't think his mother's brother used drugs and yet the number of spoons and trap house Feng Shui seemed to keep the option open.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We don't see snakes because they wear suits, but we see butterflies because they wear pyjamas.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[daikokunyo]

spoons-

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

chicken-

“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”
― George Carlin

[Gallagher]

-chucks books at y'all-

[daikokunyo]

baseball-

“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”
― Leo Durocher

cows-

“Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?”
― Bill Watterson

eyes-

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
― Cathy Guiswite

[Gallagher]

yes yes yes good

[daikokunyo]

i study for a bit, then i search up a few quotes and come here. it's working well in keeping my breaks limited ToT

connection-

“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

trees-

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

snakes-

“The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

[Gallagher]

hmm, i will have to add a few more subjects in that case

[Den]

*wanders through*

“I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
― Anne Sexton

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
― Robert Marley

“Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.”
― Craig Ferguson

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”
― Hank Aaron

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“Tell me the story..
About how the sun loved the moon so much..
That she died every night..
Just to let him breathe...”
― Hanako Ishii

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There is no problem on earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
― Hippocrates

[mdom]

“Never trust a duck.” by Cassandra Clare

I'll be back with more quotes later