fave quotes

Let’s admit it: We put ‘Made with love’ on our home crafted gifts, because ‘Made with cursing, two trips to the craft store and lots of wine’ just won’t fit on a pretty little label. (Originated as a Facebook post and spread throughout social media)

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We’ve always been makers. Long before we called ourselves artists or crafters or creatives, we stitched, carved, wove, painted. We told stories in patterns, in pigments, in pots and cloth and in charcoal and ochre on cave walls. We shaped the world around us with our hands; out of need, because of beauty, out of love. It’s a part of being human, this impulse to create. – Emily Charlotte Powell

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“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.” —Edward de Bono 

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“We want to be just wonky enough to be interesting, but not so wonky that our life is unbearable or painful.”
― Robin Ince, I’m a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity

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“I could be embarrassed or I could be eccentric. I picked eccentric.”
― Arthur Yeomans, No Ordinary School

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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

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“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

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“Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.” ― Tim Minchin

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. – Bernard Meltzer

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators” ― Stephen Fry

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning – Albert Einstein

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“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”  — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” — Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘All gods are bastards!” — Terry Pratchett (The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1))

“You’re Hell’s Angels, then? What chapter are you from?”
“REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.” — Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

Many phenomena—wars, plagues, sudden audits—have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for Exhibit A. Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

“Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.” — Terry Pratchett

“She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.” — Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

“You can’t second-guess ineffability, I always say.” — Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

“IT WASN’T A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. It should have been, but that’s the weather for you. For every mad scientist who’s had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is finished and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who’ve sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime.” — Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)

“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.” — Terry Pratchett (Soul Music (Discworld, #16))

“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.” — Terry Pratchett (Witches Abroad)

“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.” — Terry Pratchett (Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12))