You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.
He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".
I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.
I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
Now I understand,” said the last man.
God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.
I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.
I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.
Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.
I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.
I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.
I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!
Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done than said.
How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.
You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.
So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.
You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.
It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.
Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.
If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said
I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.
No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.
Whoever said it's tough at the top is talking absolute sh*t.
All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.
I said to myself, if I was in the race, I know I would have won.
Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious. And I said Right.
I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.
There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.
The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.
I have said countless times that unless you are delivering a product and service that is really needed and unless you are doing it really well, you don't stick around for 80 years.
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.
We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.
Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.
I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.
Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong...
Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?
The less said the better.
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...
It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.
My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.
I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.
but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.
I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.
sometimes I hate you," she said.
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'
You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
That’s not me. I wouldn’t [take paternity leave.] Quite frankly, I would have said C-section before the season starts. I need to be at Opening Day. I’m sorry.
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.
We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.
I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'
Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.
This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.
Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.
War is like night, she said. It covers everything.
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.
In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5
You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then?" "I believe in them all." Vin frowned. "None of them contradict each other?" Sazed smiled. "Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all.
Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.
It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found." "The truth?" Sazed said. "No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.
It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.
Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.
Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.
Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.
That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.
Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.
Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.
It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.
Hillary Clinton ripped FBI Director Louis Freeh on Wednesday. She said she can't understand how FBI documents could vanish and then mysteriously reappear. She has to say that or she'd be thrown out of the Magician's Society.
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.