Louise Rennison Quotes

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

So, what are you doing tonight?" Me?" Janie laughs. "Homework, of course." You want company?" Carrie's looking wistful. Do you have homework to do?" Of course. WEther I do it or not is the real question.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

Idling has always been my strong point.

...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

Well, now that you set him on fire, I'm sure we're well on the path to reconciliation.

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.

Well you see, Brazilian JiuJitsu Blackbelts have a blackbelt in...... Brazilian JiuJitsu

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

Well, I'm sold. I'll take one America.

When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.