English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Had Quotes (page 348)

Thomas Pynchon quote: "She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit,..."
She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided... Thomas Pynchon
They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing. Paul Auster
The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?"I thought we had been."But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome! Stephen King
Aristotle quote: "he who had never learned to obey cannot be a good commander"
he who had never learned to obey cannot be a good commander Aristotle
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it. Ernest Hemingway
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden. Alice Hoffman
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She understood that her heart operated on its own..."
She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jodi Picoult quote: "What you had could never make up for what you'd lost."
What you had could never make up for what you'd lost. Jodi Picoult
It takes an unusual man to make up a hymn in a hurry, but such a man was Captain Roberts. He knew every hymn in The Antique and Contemporary Hymn Book, and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny. Terry Prachett
... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can. Bill Bryson
Since, on a socio-economic level, there are myriad wrongs that need tobe righted, a major problem for the species seems to be how to assistthe unfortunate, throttle the corrupt, preserve the biosphere, andeffectively organize for socio-economic alteration wihtout theorganization being taken over by dullards, the people who, ironically, are best suited to serving organized causes since they seldom haveanything more imaginative to do and, restricted by tunnel vision, probably wouldn't do it if... Tom Robbins
And yet, he had this: the ability to make you believe in him and want to fight for him because, without any reservation, he believed in you in a way you did not yet believe in yourself. John Edwards
Me?" said Bragg. "I'm not alive. Revived, from time to time - maybe. but not alive."Liar."Try me."You forget, Mister Bragg - Stu honey - Stuart darling - Bragg baby. I already have."They had almost reached their destination. Col said: "I don't have burn marks for nothing, my dear. I don't have these scars by chance. I'm covered with your fingerprints. Covered from head to toe and back again on the other side."You sound just like Minna," said Bragg. I know," Col said. "I know I do. I've been... Timothy Findley
Cynthia Ozick quote: "If I had to say what writing is, we would define it..."
If I had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage. Cynthia Ozick
It had never occured to me that thinking and music are so much alike. In fact, you can say music is another way of thinking or maybe thinking is another kind of music. Ursula K. Le Guin

Popular Topics

Popular Author