Mirimë > Mirimë's Quotes

“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.”
“It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected.
“No, it ca’n’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

“If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.”
― Groucho Marx

“Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Mußte denn das so sein, daß das, was des Menschen Glückseligkeit macht,
wieder die Quelle seines Elendes würde?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“La Terre est un gâteau plein de douceur.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.”
― George Lucas

“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
― George Lucas, The Star Wars Trilogy

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games