Stevie Nicks

I am pretty fearless. You know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.

I believe I was definitely sent down here to take people away for a little while, to make them happy.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, ‘But you’re alone.’ But I don’t feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

See, I think you live on earth a certain number of times until you finish what it is that you were meant to do here. And then you go on. I don’t think I’ll be back here. I think I’m done.

I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I’m sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

You can tell a lot about a person by listening to the way they talk about someone they once loved.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

We should come home from adventures and perils and discoveries with new experiences and character.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.