Erin > Erin's Quotes

“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
― E.E. Cummings

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We can do hard things -- it's the impossible that takes a little longer.”
― Alan Packer

“You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person”
― John C. Wright, Fugitives of Chaos

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.”
― Lord Byron, Don Juan

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”
― Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“You are
What you do
When it counts"
- The Masao”
― John Steakley, Armor