Dark Ape > Dark's Quotes

“Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Home, home with the insane, where the nutjobs and the crazies all stay. Where seldom is heard, a completely sane word, and the jackets all fit just the same.”
― Daniel Schinhofen, Gearing Up

“I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Nobody

“Me and polite have never been on close terms.”
― Jim Butcher

“It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

“Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.”
― Jim Butcher, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

“I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they are in fact enjoying a free trip somewhere, time off work, and the opportunity to flirt with strangers, drink, and otherwise indulge themselves. The first major difference between a business convention and a fan-dom convention is that fandom doesn’t bother with the pretenses. They’re just there to have a good time. The second difference is the dress code— the ensembles at a fan convention tend to be considerably more novel.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.”
― Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury

“Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

“Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.”
― Jim Butcher, Many Bloody Returns

“Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.”
― Jack Campbell, Relentless