Quotes - Seth Odell (instantfriedrice) Showing 1-30 of 79

#1

“...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
― Michael Caine

tags: criminals, evil, insanity, the-dark-knight

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#2

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

1719 likes

#3

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

1621 likes

#4

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35631 likes

#5

“Those bound by superficial rules who do not use their pawns to the utmost are fools.”
― Ciel Phantomhive

tags: black-butler

60 likes

#6

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

4547 likes

#7

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

3541 likes

#8

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: loneliness, people, scared, world

4262 likes

#9

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

1561 likes

#10

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, fear

5506 likes

#11

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful

5133 likes

#12

“Winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: forcasting, mottos, winter

3571 likes

#13

“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

3124 likes

#14

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: fantasy, heaven

1693 likes

#15

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

8730 likes

#16

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: gandalf, grief

5927 likes

#17

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

2166 likes

#18

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

45298 likes

#19

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

37057 likes

#20

“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”
― Mario Puzo

tags: classic, life, literature, misattributed-machiavelli

206 likes

#21

“Something once lost can never return.”
― Ciel Phantomhive

tags: sad-truth

15 likes

#22

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17573 likes

#23

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13095 likes

#24

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

9514 likes

#25

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9098 likes

#26

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

tags: god, humor, religion

7982 likes

#27

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

5918 likes

#28

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5739 likes

#29

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5144 likes