Tim Robinson > Tim's Quotes

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Is there anything more beautiful than gold?” - Freya's question.

Plain-thoughted Thor spoke. “A farm at first light
Is more beautiful than gold, or
A ship's sails in the mist.
Many ordinary things are far more beautiful.”
― George Webbe Dasent, Popular Tales from Norse Mythology

“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Happiness is being contented with what you got-- so get enough.”
― Dik Browne, Hagar the Horrible's Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Three things I will not allow in my classroom: imagination, reading for pleasure and jam sandwiches”
― Lyn Gardner, Raiders of the Lost Shark

“Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born;
He held the Human Race in Scorn.”
― Hilaire Belloc, Selected Cautionary Verses

“perfect peace with loved ones far away”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Isn't the known universe filled with all manner of insipid cordials and liqueurs, of everything from honeydew melon to yoghurt? yet is there not one of beer? What genius thought of this?”
― Ellis Weiner, National Lampoon's Doon

“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I said, "Oh ah!"' replied the shepherd, "and I won't take it back.”
― Jules Verne, The Castle of the Carpathians

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.”
― Howard Zinn

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

“Got to start by finding it, have we?" answered Puddleglum. " Not allowed to start by looking for it, I suppose?”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.”
― Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter Illustrated Collection

“O great and mighty Master Li, pray impart to me the Secret of Wisdom!" he bawled.

"Take a large bowl," I said. "Fill it with equal measures of fact, fantasy, history, mythology, science, superstition, logic, and lunacy. Darken the mixture with bitter tears, brighten it with howls of laughter, toss in three thousand years of civilization, bellow kan pei — which means 'dry cup' — and drink to the dregs."

Procopius stared at me. "And I will be wise?" he asked.

"Better," I said. "You will be Chinese.”
― Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds

“Ben looked at the sausages. The sausages looked at Ben. They loved each other so much!”
― Matthew Swanson, Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Endless Waiting

“You're brave and not very bright, which is the key to success.”
― Ursula Vernon

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I have no doubt that you will wish to know what the princess lived on, during the long years when the dragon did the cooking. My dear, she lived on her income, and that is a thing that a great many people would like to be able to do.”
― E. Nesbit, The Book of Dragons

“Rio would be your man,' said John. 'Dusky maidens rolling green cigars upon their bronzed thighs. A train-robber chum of mine has his lodgings thereabouts. The climate so they say is ideal for the professional drinking man or the unemployed war criminal.”
― Robert Rankin, East of Ealing

“Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.”
― Edith Nesbit, New Treasure Seekers