Simple Sunday- Book Memes
Category: Simple Sundays
Simple Sunday- Snarky/Funny Quotes
These are from a book called “The Book of Poisonous Quotes.” I found it at a book sale pre-Covid. These are from the Film section of the book.
“Movies are just another form of merchandising- we have our factory which is called the stage; we make a product, we color it, we title it, and we ship it out in cans.” -Cary Grant
“The length of the film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” – Alfred Hitchcock
“You can’t find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.”- Carrie Fisher
“Hollywood is where they write the alibis before they write the story.”- Carole Lombard
“It seems the moment anyone gets a hold of an exclamation mark these days, he sits down and writes a musical show around it.” – George Jean Nathan
Simple Sunday- War and Peace
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” Ernest Hemingway
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” –Bertrand Russell
“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”- Maya Lin
“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”-Douglas MacArthur
Simple Sunday- Favorite Author Quotes Pt 2
“He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
“It’s easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.”― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones
“And weren’t, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren’t. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.” – Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“This crusade to fix herself was ending right now. She wasn’t broken. She saw and interacted with the world in a different way, but that was her. She could change her actions, change her words, change her appearance, but she couldn’t change the root of herself. At her core, she would always be autistic. People called it a disorder, but it didn’t feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was.” ― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient
Simple Sunday- Favorite Author Quotes
“The thing about mental health was, you couldn’t take a course of antibiotics and be magically healed. Some people’s brains just thought too much or felt too much or hurt too much, and you had to stay on top of that.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown
“Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark.” ― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead
“I’m not a monster because I live in a world that gives me impossible choices.”― Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water
“Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel’s Kiss
“The family you create is sometimes just as important as the one you’re born into.”
― Rebekah Weatherspoon, Xeni
Simple Sunday- History
“Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most ‘cos you don’t realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.” –B. B. King
“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.”- Aretha Franklin
“Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.”- Octavia E. Butler
“We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.”-Shirley Chisholm
“We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.”-Stacey Abrams
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”- James Baldwin
Simple Sunday- Play
“Playing a game together actually builds up bonds and trust and cooperation. We actually build stronger social relationships as a result.”- Jane McGonigal, Game designer
“We shouldn’t stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination. Those things can help us in life.”-Hayao Miyazaki
“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”-Henri Matisse
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.”-Erik H. Erikson
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Simple Sunday- Morning
“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” –Ursula K. Le Guin
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”- E. B. White
“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’- Anna Quindlen
“My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.”-George Takei
“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”-Ogden Nash
“Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.”-Catherynne M. Valente
Simple Sunday- Star Trek
“Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” — Jean-Luc Picard
“Respect is earned, not bestowed.” — Deanna Troi
“Leave bigotry in your quarters; there’s no room for it on the bridge.” — Captain Kirk
“You can use logic to justify almost anything. That’s its power. And it’s flaw.” — Captain Cathryn Janeway
“Then die in ignorance. I can waste no more time on you.”- Worf
Simple Sunday- Time
“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”
— Terry Pratchett (I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4))