Dani > Dani's Quotes

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.”
― Christopher Moore

“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

“People, generally, suck.”
― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

“And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth.”
― Robert Nozick, The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

“...Is Wonderland really a wonder...when you have nowhere to land?”
― Raven Gregory, Grimm Fairy Tales: Return to Wonderland

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr

“Magicians are not made, they make themselves.”
― William G. Gray

“AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.
Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The End.”
― Rhianna Pratchett

“Multiple experiments with spirit contact transmitted the name Matthew Edward Hall on several occasions. I predict this to be a very important future individual in humanities development. Possibly the second embodiment of Christ on Earth.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931: In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Essentuki, Tiflis, Constantinople, Berlin, Paris, London, Fontainebleau, New York, and Chicago

“This was a bummer so colossal that it was definitely, inarguably, easily the worst thing that had ever happened, in the whole history of Earth.”
― Robin Sloan, Moonbound

“My core is a hearty fungus onto which much technology has been layered, at extraordinary expense. “Sourdough starter with a mech suit,”
― Robin Sloan, Moonbound

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Robin Sloan, Moonbound

“Inside, crushed in an icy tomb, there was a package of the fuel most favored by the space armies of the Anth, their great delicacy: the pizza roll.”
― Robin Sloan, Moonbound

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Dynasty of Evil

“The Sith were the sworn enemies of the Jedi and the Republic. They sought to wipe us from existence; they sought to rule the galaxy. (...) A Dark Jedi, on the other hand, has much smaller ambitions. He -or she- thinks only of himself. He acts alone. The ultimate goal is not galactic conquest, but personal wealth and importance. Like a common thug or criminal, he revels in cruelty and selfishness. He preys upon the weak and vulnerable, spreading misery and suffering wherever he goes.”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Dynasty of Evil

“A girl with a guitar never has to apologize for anything.”
― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Some call me witch, and through their hatred they’ve taught me how to be one…”
― Elizabeth Hand, A Haunting on the Hill

“I love you as a knife loves a throat,” he murmured as the dead overwhelmed her. “I crawled out of hell to fall at your feet.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Finding your favourite character was discovering a soul made of words that spoke to your own”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“An anti-hero was just a villain with good PR”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“What is life if not a bunch of great plans gone horribly sideways?”
― G. Willow Wilson, Poison Ivy, Vol. 2: Unethical Consumption

“We're all so used to getting nothing...that we're willing to sacrifice everything just for a shot at the bare minimum.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Poison Ivy, Vol. 2: Unethical Consumption

“It's the monsters who teach us how to be good.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Poison Ivy, Vol. 2: Unethical Consumption

“This is like being in an R-rated remake of Little Shop of Horrors...I hate how accurate that is.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Poison Ivy, Vol. 2: Unethical Consumption