Ambrose Miles > Ambrose's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A thing too silly to be said can be sung.”
― Pierre-Augustine Caron de Beaumarchais

“I no longer believe I can save people. I've tried, and I've failed, and while I'm sure there are people out there in the world with that particular gift, I'm not one of them...But books, on the other hand: I do still believe that books can save you.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Borrower

“Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“I dream of a better tomorrow. One where chickens can cross the road and their motives remain unquestioned.”
― Anonymous

“There’s always a way to work out your problems if you’ll only take a look at them and then do what needs to be done.
For instance, when I found that three mornings in a row I had shut off my new alarm and gone back to sleep, I put the switch in the kitchen and tied it in to the coffeemaker.”
― John Varley, Millennium

“You don’t hire a genius to solve the most intractable imaginable problem, and then hedge him around with a lot of rules, nor try to micro-manage him ... You turn him loose.
If all you need is somebody to follow orders, you can hire an idiot. In fact, an idiot would be better suited.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Cetaganda

“Questions do not offend me, but I can't guarantee that the answers won't offend you.”
― Randall Garrett, The Best of Randall Garrett

“You don’t truly own anything you can’t carry in both arms at a dead run.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“You expect me to get on a helicopter? I don’t do helicopters. I weigh too much, and I know too much about gravity.”
― J.A. Jance

“The traditional wisdom when dealing with poltergeist phenomena is to keep an eye out for adolescent children in the vicinity.”
― David Langford, Fables from the Fountain