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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,750 people liked it

"Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
— Jim Butcher (Storm Front)

tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid
143 people liked it

"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar"
— Jim Butcher (Dead Beat)

tags: humor, life, zen
56 people liked it

"An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!"
— Jim Butcher (Blood Rites)

tags: danger, errands, incendiary-poo, pyromaniac-gorillas
47 people liked it

"Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now. "
— Jim Butcher

tags: books, dresden, files
40 people liked it

"In name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!"
— Jim Butcher (Summer Knight)

35 people liked it

"I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children."
— Jim Butcher (Fool Moon)

32 people liked it

"My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way."
— Jim Butcher (White Night)

tags: hair, haircut, messy, shaggy, sloppy
31 people liked it

"Polka will never die."
— Jim Butcher (Dead Beat)

tags: polka
21 people liked it

"Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change."
— Jim Butcher

20 people liked it

""You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.""
— Jim Butcher (Turn Coat)

tags: america, diplomacy
18 people liked it

"A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind."
— Jim Butcher (Storm Front)

tags: witty
14 people liked it

"There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt. "
— Jim Butcher (Turn Coat)

12 people liked it

"We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one."
— Jim Butcher (Grave Peril)

tags: humor
10 people liked it

""I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.""
— Jim Butcher (Captain's Fury)

9 people liked it

"I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards."
— Jim Butcher (Dead Beat)

8 people liked it

"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. "
— Aaron Sorkin

tags: bbb, butcher, from, interview, jim
7 people liked it

"Sleep is God. Go worship."
— Jim Butcher

7 people liked it

"I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code."
— Jim Butcher (Dead Beat)

7 people liked it

"Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench."
— Jim Butcher (Fool Moon)

tags: humor, women
4 people liked it

""If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.""
— Jim Butcher (Captain's Fury)

4 people liked it

"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."
— Jim Butcher (Blood Rites)

tags: work
4 people liked it

"We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville."
— Jim Butcher (Grave Peril)

tags: humor, insanity
4 people liked it

""I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.""
— Jim Butcher (Storm Front)

tags: humor, women
3 people liked it

"You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast."
— Jim Butcher (Storm Front)

tags: motivation
3 people liked it

"Bite me, faerie fruitcake."
— Jim Butcher (Summer Knight)

tags: humor
3 people liked it

"You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony."
— Jim Butcher (Summer Knight)

tags: humor
3 people liked it

"So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?"
— Jim Butcher (Death Masks)

tags: atheism, humor
4 people liked it

"Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation."
— Jim Butcher (Death Masks)

tags: humor
4 people liked it

"A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course."
— Jim Butcher (Blood Rites)

tags: humor
3 people liked it

"God save me from idealists."
— Jim Butcher (Grave Peril)

tags: humor, idealism
2 people liked it

"I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits."
— Jim Butcher (Grave Peril)

tags: humor
3 people liked it

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

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,266 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
3,240 people liked it

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour
1,983 people liked it

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

tags: humor, wit
1,407 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
1,329 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
588 people liked it

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

529 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
494 people liked it

"A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.""
— Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)

tags: life
436 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
171 people liked it

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively usual thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."
— Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story)

tags: humor
90 people liked it

"I don't want to die! I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor
156 people liked it

"I don't go to mythical places with strange men."
— Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)

11 people liked it

"There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick."
— Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)

tags: psychology
11 people liked it

"I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous."
— Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)

tags: careers
4 people liked it

"Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To."
— Douglas Adams

64 people liked it

"The answer to life, the universe, and everything, is 42"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

66 people liked it

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes."
— Douglas Adams

52 people liked it

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