Stirling > Stirling's Quotes

“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Great, lets round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them - Jayfeather”
― Erin Hunter, The Sight

“There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.”
― Michelle Paver

“Eulaliiiaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
― Brian Jacques

“Firestar: Okay, Jayfeather, what does mallow look like?
Jayfeather: I don't know, do I? I've never seen it.”
― Erin Hunter

“Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Percepliquis

“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
― Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

“If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Theft of Swords

“Hadrian shook his head and sighed. “Why do you have to make everything so difficult? They’re probably not bad people—just poor. You know, taking what they need to buy a loaf of bread to feed their family. Can you begrudge them that? Winter is coming and times are hard.” He nodded his head in the direction of the thieves. “Right?”
“I ain’t got no family,” flat-nose replied. “I spend most of my coin on drink.”
“You’re not helping,” Hadrian said.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Theft of Swords

“Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

“And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.”
― Farley Mowat

“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Advertising is legitimised lying.”
― H.G. Wells

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics—Well, they can do whatever they wish.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.”
― Steven Moffat

“When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. (In the library, the Doctor walks back to the TARDIS. He stops, looking at the doors. Then he raises his hand, and stands there poised like that for a long moment. Finally he snaps his fingers. The doors open. He smiles slowly and walks in, joining Donna. Then he snaps his fingers again, and the doors close. River's voice continues over this.) Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives.”
― Steven Moffat

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22