Carl > Carl's Quotes

“We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.
"Has a European feel," Susan said.
"That sounds terrific," I said. "Can I have one?"
Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said.
"Iron self-control," I said.”
― Robert B. Parker, Ceremony

“I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.”
― Robert B. Parker, Small Vices

“Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.”
― Lee Child, Worth Dying For

“If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”
― Dean Koontz

“mmmm, space stuff”
― Matthew Reilly

“Morality is not the purpose of life; life is the purpose of morality.”
― Warren Fahy

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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

“Contrary to popular belief, most detectives couldn't detect a heartbeat on a speed addict, but you never know when you might be up against the next Ellery Queen.”
― Simon Kernick, The Business of Dying

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Tis the night—the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without,
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they—it is they!”
― Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween: A Romaunt

“How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?

I read his mind.

I matched his DNA.

I smelled him.

I also did that.”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

“The chinese character for "strife" is represented by two women under the same roof.”
― Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.”
― David Gemmell

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction”
― George Gordon Byron

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan