72 quotes found
“Astonishing how tea opens the ears.”
“Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.”
“All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.”
“No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.”
“Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others.”
“A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude.”
“Shut up, shut up, will you! Nobody minds that you are in pain. Pain is a human condition. You do not care that I am hungry, do you? And therefore I do not need to care whether you are in agony. Nob...”
“A demigod who reaches his apotheosis never mourns for himself.It is the business of his many adulators to mourn for him. He cannot feel sadness to be so great, leaving all the rest of us to champio...”
“Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.”
“Life is really a travesty of will: it is a parade of learning how to lose people and improve at feigning indifference.I suspect I shall always fail at this, and fail miserably. I do not know whethe...”
“Life makes beggars out of those who have joyful hearts, taxing the living with hardship and tribulation, but the charity of companionship, the currency of shared and unmitigated love, alleviates al...”
“This book is a work of fiction.Actually, it is a work of fiction within a fiction, as the main characters, though real persons in a fictional world, are being depicted in a book which other fiction...”
“Another atrocity of summer is soccer. When the Euro Cup is on, it brings out the worst in people. It turns them into ravaging beasts who complain when a team they like, which they have done nothing...”
“The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy.”
“Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.”
“Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield.”
“My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.”
“It is 32c today, and the only thing keeping me from hanging myself is the small sense of relief Iglean from attaching my body to the vents of my delicious cooling piece. It is a stunning unit,exqui...”
“Why are you wailing away? What is the matter with you?I was playing and and her lip quivered as she spoke, and it was cloudy, and then a sniff, and then, as I was playing, the sun came out.I gave h...”
“Everyone is a raconteur without realizing it. We speak to our friends, we speak to our doctors and therapists about the nothing-meaning nonsense that goes on in our lives, but the difference in tel...”
“Books are an absolute necessity. I always have at least two with me wherever I go, to say nothing of my digital collection, and whenever I can get my hands on a delicious new reading piece, I will ...”
“In my desperation to try to lull myself into a gentle sloom, I have created a list of things that will often assist my descent into delicious treacle-sleep. The list includes a series of things I c...”
“Tell me, Peppone, what other talents do you have besides erasing undesirables? I enjoy a fair bit of sneaking, sir. I also enjoy pilfering and killing as a professional courtesy. What a delightfull...”
“He pointed at the caiques, but Peppone declined the librarians offer, saying only, Do you think the proprietor of the inn where we met will report us? The money I left him was more than enough to s...”
