Timothy Knutson > Timothy's Quotes

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.”
― Stieg Larsson

“I can be a regular bitch. Just try me.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.”
― Stieg Larsson

“I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.”
― Steig Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“she was the human equivalent of a storm cloud.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

“In my experience, it was hard to write without your preferred tools, but impossible to write without a cigarette.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“In 2004,I offered priority (book)-signing to smokers, the reason being that, because they didn't have as long to live, their time was more valuable. Four years later my special treatment was reserved for men who stood five-foot-six and under. "That's right, my little friends," I announced. "There'll be no waiting in line for you." It seemed unfair to restrict myself to men, so I included any woman with braces on her teeth.
"What about us?" asked the pregnant and the lame. And because it was my show, I told them to wait their f***ing turn.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

“The people I hung out with in my early twenties were middle-class and, at least to our minds, artistic. We’d all turned our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it. No one wanted to call home asking for money, but we all knew that in a pinch our parents would come through for us.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“Love seemed all the sweeter when it was misunderstood, condemned by the outside world.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“Wants to set the world on fire, and if it can't happen by tomorrow morning at nine a.m., then life's just unfair and hardly worth living.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

“WHEN ASKED “ What do we need to learn this for?” any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness. Because it’s true. Latin, geography, the gods of ancient Greece and Rome: unless you know these things, you’ll be limited to doing the puzzles in People magazine, where the clues read “Movie title, Gone ____ the Wind” and “It holds up your pants.” It’s not such a terrible place to start, but the joy of accomplishment wears off fairly quickly.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. By this I meant that I would stop living in a fantasy world; that, while standing in line for a hamburger or my shot at the ATM, I would not daydream about befriending a gorilla or inventing a pill that would make hair waterproof.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“Rather than admit defeat, I decided to change goals.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I know it sounds calculating, but if you’re not cute, you might as well be clever.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I’ll think of when we first met, of the newness of each other’s body, and my impatience to know everything about this person. Looking back, I should have taken it more slowly, measured him out over the course of fifty years rather than cramming him in so quickly.”
― David Sedaris

“Bitch, I’m here to tell you that it’s going to be all right. We’ll get through this shit, motherfucker, just you wait.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“that’s what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“Then he reached to an even higher shelf and brought down another plastic grocery bag, this one from Tesco, which is decidedly less upscale. “Now, a smell is going to hit you when I open this up, but don’t worry,” he said. “It’s just the smoke they used to preserve the head.” That’s a phrase you don’t hear too often, so it took a moment for it to sink in.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“If you don’t want to marry a homosexual, then don’t. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor’s options? It’s like voting on whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls