"Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes."
— Mae West

""Behind every successful woman, are three more egging her on!""
— Catherine Leyen

"It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me."
— Marisa de los Santos (Belong to Me: A Novel)

"Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet."
— Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

""If you're asking for the logical decision to make..." -- Spock,
"No, I'm not. The mission of this vessel is to seek out and contact alien life." -- Kirk,
"Isn't there some inefficiency in asking me advice on matters you've already decided?" Spock"
— Star Trek

"Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing.
"Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned.
"That can be his Indian name," I suggested."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"“Yes!” said Fang, punching the air. “Freaks rule.”"
— James Patterson (The Angel Experiment)

""Vhat ozzer abilities do you haf?" ter Borcht snapped, which his assistant waited, pen in hand.

Gazzy thought. "I have X-ray vision," he said. He peered at ter Borcht's chest, then blinked and looked alarmed.

Ter Borcht was startled for a second, but then he frowned. "Don't write dat down," he told his assistant in irritation. The assistant froze in midsentence.

~

"You. Do you haf any qualities dat distinguish you in any way?"

Nudge chewed on a fingernail. "You mean, like, besides the WINGS?" She shook her shoulders gently, and her beautiful fawn-colored wings unfolded a bit.

His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings."

"Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!"

"Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly.

Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ...

... "I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."

~

Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony."

Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold on to someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?"

"Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert"...

~

Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica."

~

"I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahrs!" Gazzy barked."
— James Patterson

"'You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.'"
— James Patterson (School's Out - Forever)

"“Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked.
“Yeah.”
“When?”
“Right away.”
“How?” I persisted. “We look identical. She even had identical scars and scratches. She was wearing my clothes. How could you tell us apart?”
He turned to me and grinned, making my world brighter. “She offered to cook breakfast.'"
— James Patterson (School's Out - Forever)

" Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely.
Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.
"
— James Patterson

"“We’ll be back!” he snarled.
It was really Ari’s voice.
“Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang
"
— James Patterson (School's Out - Forever)

"I hate this guy,” Ari muttered, keeping his head down
“There’s a club,” I told him. “The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet?”
"
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"'Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?' "
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max"
— James Patterson (The Final Warning)

"Well thats an evil smile... "
— James Patterson (The Angel Experiment)

"Fang felt a cold jolt, then dismissed it. Max wasn’t dead. He would know, somehow. He would have felt it. The world still felt the same to him; therefore, Max was still in it."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"The thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything into perspective."
— James Patterson

"Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"SITTING TIGHT? Holing up? Waiting for answers?
Those are things I'm not good at.
Planning a massive attack against mechanical geeky-like things when i was already furious and itching to kill something?
Piece o'cake

Maximum Ride"
— James Patterson (Max)

"“We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.”
That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered
"
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

""So you have you price," I said with a mouthful of crumbs. "Your soul for a cookie." Fang made sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking and then shot me the bird."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode."
— James Patterson (Max)

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

""Believe it!!!" Naruto yelled."
— Masashi Kishimoto

""Bombs are good. I love bombs."--Iggy"
— James Patterson

"His only possessions are the sky, the earth and a broken-down violin.
Even so... he only loved someone once in his lifetime.. and he's 624 years old."
— Kaori Ozaki (Immortal Rain Vol. 1)

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
— Douglas Adams

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
— G.K. Chesterton

""OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud.
"Don't be ridiculous," Flamel snapped, "They're rats."
Josh really didn't think it was a ridiculous suggestion."
— Michael Scott The Alchemyst

"Sorry, God doesn't like me very much. Even if I went, He'd probably chase me away!"
— Edward Elric in Full Metal Alchemist, Volume 1

""You can never move forward if you keep your head in the past!""
— Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist

"Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?"
— Shirley Hughes

"Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams."
— Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1)

""Buckle up, Scotty""
— Star Trek

"Beam me up, Scotty!"
— Nobody in Star Trek The Original Series. Ever.

""Are you out of your Vulcan mind??" Mcoy said to Spock"
— Star Trek

""I like this ship! You know, it's exciting!"
"
— Star Trek - Montgomery Scott after Spock leaves the bridge following a fistfight between Spock and J

""Who was that pointy-eared bastard?" James Kirk asked.

"I don't know...but I like him." MCcoy answered after meeting Spock for the first time"
— Star Trek

""Captain, what are you doing?" Spock asked.
"Showing them compassion. It may be the only way to earn peace with Romulus. It's logic, Spock. I thought you'd like that." James Kirk said
"No, not really. Not this time."
Spock replied.
"
— Star Trek

""Oh, relax, cupcake. It was a joke." James Kirk said, patting the Cadet on the shoulder.
"Hey! Farmboy! Maybe you can't count, but there are four of us and one of you." a Strfleet Cadet said.
"So get some more guys and then it'll be an even fight." James Kirk replied, patting the side of the Cadet's face."
— Star Trek

"""Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you're so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence." McCoy said upon meeting James Kirk on a shuttle.
"sorry to break this to you but starfleet operates in space.""
— Star Trek

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis