Vanessa Dargain > Vanessa's Quotes

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“The safest place to hide a leaf is in a forest.”
― Matthew Skelton, Endymion Spring

“Sometime it's more difficult to know the question than to find an answer.”
― Matthew Skelton, Endymion Spring

“I had opened a book that could not be closed, started a story that had no obvious conclusion. It was a tale in which I wanted to play no part.”
― Matthew Skelton, Endymion Spring

“Не все погибли от нее, но пострадали все.
("Животные, заболевшие чумой")”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

“Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

“He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple--the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Don’t take anything for granite. That’s what tombstones are made of.”
― John R. Erickson, Hank the Cowdog

“Coyotes can’t expect to keep friends when they eat them all the time.”
― John R. Erickson, Hank the Cowdog

“When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.”
― John R. Erickson, Hank the Cowdog

“A fire sure don't have much pity.”
― John R. Erickson, The Case of the Monster Fire

“Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play.” This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing.
This is called decomposing.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Composer Is Dead

“If you are going to hear the work of the world’s greatest composers, you will have to allow for a little murder here and there. […] Those who want justice can go to the police, but those who want something a little more interesting should go to the orchestra!”
― Lemony Snicket, The Composer Is Dead

“. . . I'm sorry for when you asked me about Soviet foreign policy I said , Who gives a $@!&?”
― Diane Mott Davidson, The Cereal Murders

“Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself”
― Plato

“Your answers lie here," Rovender said, gesturing around the library.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“That's funny , " said Freddy . " I've always wanted to be thin . Always . Sort of slender and willowy . I've never seen a pig like that , but I see no reason why one shouldn't be . . . " pp. 122-123”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy the Politician

“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

“The most important ingredient that goes into a pie is the love that goes into making it.”
― Sarah Weeks, Pie

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I believe that the emergence of postmodernism is closely related to the emergence of this new moment of late, consumer or multinational capitalism. I believe also that its formal features in many ways express the deeper logic of that particular social system. I will only be able, however, to show this for one major theme: namely the disappearance of a sense of history, the way in which our entire contemporary social system has little by little begun to lose its capacity to retain its own past, has begun to live in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve. Think only of the media exhaustion of news: of how Nixon and, even more so, Kennedy are figures from a now distant past. One is tempted to say that the very function of the news media is to relegate such recent historical experiences as rapidly as possible into the past.”
― Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Learn to see what you are looking at.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could compete with and that he found restorative.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance