Jtraw1633's quotes

(showing 1-50 of 55)

" I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
Farewell, My Lovely "
— Raymond Chandler

8 people liked it

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."
— Robert Jordan

tags: fiction
25 people liked it

"Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day."
— Robert Jordan (The Dragon Reborn)

tags: ass, bad, inspirational
21 people liked it

"The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones."
— Robert Jordan

16 people liked it

"Winter is coming."
— George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)

tags: winter
17 people liked it

"When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. There is no middle ground."
— George R.R. Martin

24 people liked it

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."
— George R.R. Martin

tags: writers, writing
7 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing
926 people liked it

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
— Stephen King (Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay)

tags: god, humor, religion
888 people liked it

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-
305 people liked it

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

tags: dark, horror, tower
166 people liked it

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."
— Stephen King (Dolores Claiborne)

tags: bitch
177 people liked it

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
— Stephen King

139 people liked it

"I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

99 people liked it

"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. "
— Raymond Chandler

tags: boiled, hard
37 people liked it

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."
— Raymond Chandler

tags: detective, hard-boiled
17 people liked it

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."
— Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep)

tags: detective, noir
15 people liked it

"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake."
— Raymond Chandler

17 people liked it

"He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor."
— Raymond Chandler (Pearls Are a Nuisance)

11 people liked it

"He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway."
— Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye)

tags: boiled, hard, noir
8 people liked it

"Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon."
— Raymond Chandler

tags: revision, writing
11 people liked it

""I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it." "
— Raymond Chandler

tags: humor
11 people liked it

"It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window."
— Raymond Chandler (Farewell, My Lovely)

11 people liked it

"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
— Raymond Chandler

8 people liked it

"When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems."
— Stephen Ambrose (To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian)

8 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,941 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,873 people liked it

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
1,199 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,712 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,877 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,787 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,250 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,670 people liked it

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor
1,338 people liked it

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, wit
1,415 people liked it

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
— Douglas Adams

tags: learning
979 people liked it

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, perspective, science
1,015 people liked it

"The major problem- one of the major problems, for there are several- one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of whom manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: elections, hg2g, politics, president, rulers
497 people liked it

"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds."
— Douglas Adams

tags: craft, humor, writing
590 people liked it

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
— Douglas Adams

tags: learning
321 people liked it

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: adams, douglas
264 people liked it

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: fiction, humor, novelist, science
174 people liked it

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."
— Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: adams, beeblebrox, douglas, guide, hitchhiker-s, quote, zaphod
131 people liked it

"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."
— Douglas Adams

87 people liked it

"It can hardly be a coincindence that no language on earth has ever produced the expession "As pretty as an airport." "
— Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)

79 people liked it

"The impossible often has a kind of integrity the merely improbable lacks."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor
62 people liked it

""I eventually had to go down to the cellar..."
"That's the display department."
"...with a torch"
"The lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"Well, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes. The plans were on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard""
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: aurthur, bypass, demolition, dent, house, humour
45 people liked it

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour, life
28 people liked it

"All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: 191, pp
20 people liked it

""What was the self-sacrifice?"
"I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes."
"Why wasw that self-sacrifice?"
"Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly.
"I think we have different value systems."
"Well mine's better.""
— Douglas Adams

11 people liked it

« previous 1 2 next »

Jtraw1633's profile »

all quotes
add a quote

Jtraw1633's quotes

tags from Jtraw1633's quotes