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Never Quotes (page 186)

Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Magrat said she could never make the wand do that and Esme said no because, she wasted time wishing for thinges to happen instead of working out how to make them happen. Terry Prachett
Noel Coward quote: "Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both..."
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build. Noel Coward
Diane Keaton quote: "Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked..."
Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me. Diane Keaton
Sue Grafton quote: "I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of..."
I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good." Kinsey Milhone Sue Grafton
Herman Melville quote: "How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else,..."
How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish? Herman Melville
I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was. Harper Lee
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. Rene Descartes
George Bernard Shaw quote: "You see things and ask “Why?”; I dream things that never were..."
You see things and ask “Why?”; I dream things that never were and ask “Why not? George Bernard Shaw
And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman. William Makepeace Thackeray
He’d never been lectured on Darwinism in any brothel back home, but then what could he expect in a country run by godless socialists? Greg Egan
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? Vernor Vinge
Only when waves fall on the shore do they make a harmonious sound; Only when breezes shake the woods do we hear a rustling in the leaves. Only from a marriage of two forces does music arise in the world. Where the is no love, where listeners are dumb, there can never be song. Rabindranath Tagore
I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. Stanislaw Lem
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions"
I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions Jean-Paul Sartre

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