Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I know that asshole you were with in college --” “Can we leave that asshole out of it?” Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.
Life is like a roller coaster- it has its ups and downs but in the end you have smiles and giggles because you know...you did it.
People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
But she would never forget Brodick... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to her.
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.
There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
While I was looking the other way your fire went out. Left me with cinders to kick into dust, what a waste of the wonder you were
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.
Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.
A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.
I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it.
My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
I believe that sometimes people come into your life at exactly the right moment to give you exactly what you need at that moment.
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.
I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.
I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name.
In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.
I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.
I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.
to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself.
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.
Cloud Atlas' is but one of a long list of titles deemed unfilmable, by author and movie moguls alike, until it was, well, filmed.