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Doing You Quotes (page 130)

Hunter S. Thompson quote: "What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's..."
What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed! Hunter S. Thompson
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. Haruki Murakami
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. Terry Prachett
Mom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome Nicholas Sparks
Terry Goodkind quote: "How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To..."
How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is. Terry Goodkind
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. Isaac Asimov
Augusten Burroughs quote: "and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is?..."
and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart. Augusten Burroughs
Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid."What do you think?" his father asked. Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?"That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him. George R. R. Martin
T. H. White quote: "And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter..."
And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds. T. H. White
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender. Terry Jones
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it Herman Melville
And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow, uttering his penetrating words: "Let me be. Why do you offend me?" --and in these penetrating words rang other words: "I am your brother." And the poor young man would bury his face in his hands, and many a time in his life he shuddered to see how much inhumanity there is in man, how much savege coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners, and... Nikolai Gogol
James Patterson quote: "Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls..."
Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts! James Patterson
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks glasses! of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are... Herman Melville

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