302 quotes found
“There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.”
“Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.”
“There are no such thing as ghosts.” Joseph replied.“There are supposedly no such things as Vampires and yet here you are.” Grace quipped flippantly.”
“There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren’t even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. Th...”
“Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want.”
“He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can’t shine a sneaker.”
“silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire’s anxiety faded. It really would be easier”
“The press, the media, the internet—they'll make the noise, make the screaming, the screaming all the time, and the truth and my voice will be lost. The blaming and the noise, human things, they'll ...”
“I do not like to think too much on this Africa. It is too large and too empty,” he said. “People like De Buys, they astonish me with their courage – or perhaps it is a lack in them; they cannot ima...”
“Our anxieties were driving us to become other people—he was Earner; I was Mother, like characters in some phenomenally boring Ionesco play.”
“If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.”
“Every guy seems nice until he’s not.”
“I don’t know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It’s not like you’re sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love...”
“It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause t...”
“Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.”
“This business can be very erratic and intense … You can be the subject of great attention, both positive and negative. You really do have to tether yourself when you're a teen star. If you don't ha...”
“It's not called stalking...it's called passionately following.”
“Boarding schools for girls were not hard to find in the 1780s, not least because keeping a school was one of the very few ways in which a woman could hope to earn a respectable living, but accounts...”
“... The Diary is best known for his reporting of the national disasters that struck England while he was keeping it: the great plague of 1665, the great fire of London in 1666, the Dutch attack on ...”
“... There was a great demand for engravings of his portrait, and his head was being modeled by an admiring sculptor.This was Dickens nearly halfway through his life: he was twenty-eight in February...”
