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Doing You Quotes (page 115)

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Stephen King
John C. Maxwell quote: "Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? ..."
Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today? John C. Maxwell
Volumes can be and have been written aboutthe issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animalsand to rule them by physical force? Ayn Rand
The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! Neil Gaiman
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it... C. J. Cherryh
Mark Haddon quote: "How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten?..."
How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten? That was the real question. Mark Haddon
Aldous Huxley quote: "The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's..."
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. Aldous Huxley
Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people. David Eddings
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase? I ask her, swallowing. Bret Easton Ellis
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end. Flann O'Brien
Sue Grafton quote: "There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then..."
There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain. Sue Grafton
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassmen? Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical figures too numerous to mention collectively, never standing still or resting but spinning away and darting hither and thither and back again, all the time on the go. These diminutive gentlemen are called atoms. Do you follow me intelligently? Flann O'Brien
Charles Bukowski quote: "Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?"
Why do you insist upon destroying yourself? Charles Bukowski

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