Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”
― Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed

“Hi! My name is Bambi! I like kittens and puppies and throwing flaming balls of death at my enemies!”
― Angela Knight

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Andrew Callaghan, put that girl down before you hurt her. No one’s going to touch her, but if you’re not going to take care of her, you can’t have her.”
― Moira Rogers, Crossroads

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“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

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I'll bet you could make a woman throw out all her toys”
― Larissa Ione, Pleasure Unbound

“Tayla cursed under her breath. "I was just explaining to Eidolon that Sin is a Smurfette."
Wraith swung his big body around to study Sin with blue eyes that were very different from Shade's, E's. and Lore's. Sin's, too. "Nah. Smurfette is way hotter."
"What the fuck is a Smurfette?" Eidolon was seriously getting annoyed now.
"There's this cartoon called The Smurfs," Tayla explained, slowly, as though Eidolon were the child here.
"They're these little blue people, and they're all male. But one day a female shows up. She shouldn't exist, but she does."
Eidolon considered that for a second. "How did she get there?"
"An evil wizard named Gargamel made her," Tayla said. "In a lab or something."
"So you're suggesting that an evil wizard made Sin?"
"Of course not, silly. I'm just saying she's a Smurfette. A lone female amongst males."
Eidolon frowned. "Did the Smurfette mate with the males?"
"Dude." Wraith grimaced. "It's a cartoon.”
― Larissa Ione, Ecstasy Unveiled

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I can build a hyperphase jump gate, I'm sure I could have figured sex out. Insert Tab M into Slot F. Repeat until done.”
― Wen Spencer, Wolf Who Rules

“Well it's like eating at my mom's you get what's being served and if you don't like it they still make you eat it”
― Wen Spencer, Steel City Magic

“Hey, it's me. Just checking if you were dead. If you aren't, call me. If you are, call me anyway.”
― Mark Del Franco, Unquiet Dreams

“If I have to hear one more story about what great fun it was working with you 'back in the city,' which I assume he means that slab of concrete and garbage on the Hudson River, I will not be responsible for the removal of his tongue.”
― Mark Del Franco, Unfallen Dead