Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)
Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.
Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.
Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.
Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.
Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?
I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.
whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.
I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
On Saturdays, I get up early, spread out my notes from the week on the kitchen table, and create stories from them.
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.
Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!
All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!
Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?
I’m confident enough in my masculinity and sexuality that I can say that Ryan Gosling is just dreamy in this movie.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.
Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown.
I'm going to love you so good and so long you're gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.
The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.
Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty
I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.