Cimato Lancaster Quotes

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life. ~ Jen Lancaster

It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

Hell hath no fury like a middle-aged woman in a fuzzy pink robe, hopped up on a winning combination of allergy medicine, Alias reruns, and anger. ~ Jen Lancaster

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March. ~ Jen Lancaster

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. ~ John Green

Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I've always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel. ~ John Green

No one gives out Congratulations on Not Being a Douche-Canoe medals, because good behavior is part of the social contract. ~ Jen Lancaster

In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians. ~ Joseph Lancaster

I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place. ~ Nancy Lancaster

I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom. ~ Jen Lancaster

Failed expectations ruin marriages and kills love in the process. You and your partner deserve to know what you're both getting into… and knowing now is better than later. . ~ Eeva Lancaster

Viewed in abstractions, love is the same thing for everybody. It thrills the same way, and devastates with bloodless efficiency. ~ Craig Lancaster

The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

I had the luck of having an obedient body. ~ Burt Lancaster

If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor. ~ Jen Lancaster

Funny how what's good for the gander is good for the goose...until it's your goose ~ The Duke of Lancaster ~ Catherine Hemmerling

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? ~ John Lancaster Spalding

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

We never have that kind of fun now. Thinking of that made me sad. I hope we can have fun again sometime. I found out that I still know how. Maybe you still know how too. ~ Craig Lancaster

But ever since I made the decision to drop a few pounds-way less easy than it sounds, by the way-I've become obsessed with my size and in so doing I've inadvertently allowed my inner critic to have a voice. And you know what? She's a bitch. Like now when I see my underpants in the laundry, I no longer think Soft! Cotton! Sensible! Instead I hear her say Damn, girl, these panties be huge. ~ Jen Lancaster

hope is as intangible as belief, ~ Craig Lancaster

But how come no one says anything to my face? I do dozens of events per year and I've met thousands of readers, and every single person I've ever encountered has been lovely. Why is that, I wonder? Am I more charming in person, or is it that face-to-face blunt-force-trauma honesty requires a modicum of courage? ~ Jen Lancaster

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest. ~ Joseph Lancaster

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ~ John Green

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

Now with social media, people essentially come into my living room, my virtual living room, and tell me everything that is wrong with me. ~ Jen Lancaster

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books. ~ John Lancaster Spalding