ZizzFeed Quotes

"I think it's really important that I'm not the only model in the world that goes through personal problems. People forget that we're human. We don't get to call in sick. You have to go and put on a smile. Every single day is a first impression, so you can't have a bummed-out day."

Gigi Hadid

"The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."

Agatha Christie

Inspiration

They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up.

Zadie Smith

"True sleep eluded me. Morpheus is a capricious god; he comes easily to some and only with greatest difficulty to others. To lure him, it is best to pretend disinterest. Engage the mind in some pursuit unrelated to what is truly desired and allow no distraction from it. For me, nothing works so well as a walk through Rome."

Sara Poole

"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."

Leonard Gardner

Inspiration

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.

Mario Testino

"Man is an end in himself."

Anonymous

"A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift."

Marcel Proust

Inspiration

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.

Stephen Chbosky

"The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever."

Anonymous

Inspiration

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore

"I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea to another than with clarifying an emotion to themselves. Or when the subject of the story is beloved and missing, as a way to make them here and alive."

Lydia Minatoya

"Life growth is like muscle growth, you have to stretch beyond, feed it properly and rest. When you meditate, rest and reflect is when growth happens!!!!"

Harrish Sairaman

"Happy to say you passed the sobriety test. Sad to say you failed the asshole test."

Gena Showalter

Inspiration

A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

Simone de Beauvoir

Inspiration

A surprise visit? That's so romantic...But fairly risky.' 'If you don't take any risks, life will bass you by,' Cunco shipped in.

Nina George

Inspiration

I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.

Shehan Karunatilaka

Inspiration

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no 'future'.

Henry M. Wriston

"Sarah, honey, I hardly think kidnappers are going to take the time to buy a memento of their stay. I could be wrong, but it seems rather unlikely."

Christine Feehan

"She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names."

Robin McKinley

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