Barakiel > Barakiel's Quotes

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
― Epictetus

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
― Epictetus

“If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.”
― Epictetus

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.

Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?" says Caesar.

Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping."

Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.

She have another fellow?" asks Caesar.

I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta.

So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.

I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning...won’t help in my case," says Peeta.

Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.

Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because...because...she came here with me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter

“I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. ”
― Jeff Lindsay

“Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter

“Why do so many people start their messages with, "It's me"? Of course it is you. We all know that. But who the hell ARE you?”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Me, feeling. What a concept.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!”
― Michael Crichton

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

“God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.”
― Michael Crichton

“Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.”
― Michael Crichton, Sphere

“They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.”
― Michael Crichton, Prey

“Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!”
― Michael Crichton

“The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.”
― Michael Crichton

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
― Bill Cosby