Helen Power > Helen's Quotes

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Snyder: There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense."
Giles: Well, actually, that would be one of the five.”
― Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett.
"My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

“Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

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

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“...But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know?”
― Jill Shalvis, Head Over Heels

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.”
― Steven Wright

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Did you play with Uncle Lore today?” Carolena asked. Lily nodded, “Unh-huh,” she said, as she took a bite of cheese. “What did you play?” she asked. “Dwess up,” Lily answered. Carolena started smiling, thinking she knew the answer to her next question, “Did he help you dress up Uncle Destroy?” “Yes!” Lily answered. “UncLore” she said, using the words Uncle and Lore as though they were one combined”
― Sandra R. Neeley, Destroy

“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“I love humanity but I hate humans. —Albert Einstein”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk