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Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.
Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.
Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.
I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum
What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.
Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.
Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.
Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.
Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.