Ben Portus > Ben's Quotes

“Here is a list of the ten worst things I have done:”
― Ally Kennen

“Alex never killed hares.”
― Ally Kennen

“I find people confusing.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?”
― Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

“The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.”
― Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

“There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.”
― Charlie Higson, By Royal Command

“No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Point Blank

“Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker

“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker

“It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world.
- Dr. Grief”
― Anthony Horowitz, Point Blank

“The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.”
― D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

“I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.”
― Philip Pullman

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.”
― Al Gore

“It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's
The impurities in our air and water that are doing it”
― MAD Magazine

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.”
― Richard Dawkins

“American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.”
― Richard Dawkins

“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.”
― Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love – Essays from Renowned Scientist Richard Dawkins on Evolution and the Examined Life