Michael > Michael's Quotes

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

“Some immaterial pattern of energy, throwing off a spray of radiation like the wake of a racing speedboat, had leaped from the face of the Moon, and was heading out toward the stars.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Discovery was no longer a happy ship.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it’s full of stars!”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer, the brain and nervous system of the ship.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Still, that was the city, a great big filthy breeding-place for vermin – animal and human.”
― James Herbert, Lair

“towards them. The other two froze and did the same. Harris would never forget the horror he felt under the gaze of the three pairs of sharp, wicked-looking eyes. It wasn’t”
― James Herbert, The Rats

“And then the world exploded.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“Telekinesis is the ability to move objects or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind.”
― Stephen King, Carrie