Sam Purdie > Sam's Quotes

“Life is finding people you love and then losing them, sometimes after sixty years, sometimes after a few months or even a week, all the loss meant to keep you humble and remind you that your life is likewise stamped with an expiration date, so that you’ll use your days to the best of your ability, in the service of what is good.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“ALAN TAYLOR (Director) I wasn't going to mention that because I got in trouble the last time I mentioned it. We didn't have enough heads. We had to use every head we had. [Bush's head] had been made for some comedy. Se we had to use it. I remember making some not-very-brilliant joke at the time, like, "You go to production with the heads you have, not the heads you want"--paraphrasing [Bush's secretary of defense] Donald Rumsfeld--because I was pretty angry at Bush and Rumsfeld at the time. I thought it was funny. Since then I've realized if someone made a joke like that about a president I believed in, I would have been offended too. I think I've probably mellowed a bit, though if you gave me the chance to use [Trump's] head I'd probably jump at it.”
― James Hibberd, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Official Untold Story of the Epic Series

“He had wanted to bring a new kind of politics to Alabama: “the politics of reason, not race; of unity, not division; of concern for all citizens, not callous disregard of some for the sake of others.”
― Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

“Vengeance is as old as violence.”
― Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

“He added: “With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere.”
― Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

“...and Rosie found time to wonder - not for the first time since she had come to D&S - why so many men were so unkind. What was wrong with them? Was it something that had been left out, or something nasty which had been unaccountability built in, like a bad circuit in a computer.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“I suppose you'll see him in your dreams," Rose Madder said dismissively, "but what of that? The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings." "Yes. That's so simple most people overlook it, I think.”
― Stephen King

“In dog philosophy it was always better to go somewhere than to be left behind.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Ma and Pa had taught their sons to keep themselves fresh by bathing at least once a year.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“That's where the choice words came in, huh? He flashed a conspiratorial grin.
"Oh, don't you know it. Choice indeed. So choice you could cut them with a knife and eat them with Heinz 57 sauce.”
― Alafair Burke, Long Gone

“It was a charred wooden ember. She looked up. The horizon was red but the entire rest of the sky was black -- it was hypnotic and beautiful and very, very wrong.”
― Alastair Gee, Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
― Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

“the books I read were the dark kind—about scary things like disappearances and murders, especially the true ones. While other kids read J. K. Rowling, I read Stephen King. While other kids did history reports about the Civil War, I read about Lizzie Borden.”
― Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel

“I took my glasses off and set them to the table... The world went pleasantly blurry, and I didn´t have to see the details anymore.”
― Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel

“I put my book down, finding a Post-it note to use as a bookmark, because folding the corner of a page—even in a thirty-year-old book—is sacrilege.”
― Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel

“Misery came off him like a smell.”
― Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel

“He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offence; yet he ignored all the compassion of Christianity, denied its mercy, flagrantly disobeyed its ethic of love, and openly flouted the gentle laws of Jesus.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Waiting for me stood Mrs De Winter, who looked no different from the last time I saw her. The day she took me off to Thirsk. The day I got away from that invention of the devil – family life.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“It takes a bit of time, but why hurry through the day just to get to the next?”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“A place it was—or was meant to be—for prayer and good works and contemplation. But there are always some, aren’t there, who believe what they believe is the only. And will do whatever it takes to force that belief on all. For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don’t hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“He seemed a man who had looked at life and life had looked back at him, and neither had been satisfied by what they had seen.”
― David Baldacci, Daylight

“I'm better than I look and I look fabulous.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“Social media has absolutely nothing to do with the truth. It has to do with making shitloads of money off ads trying to sell people crap they don't need. But the terrible by-product of that is giving a global platform to the absolute worst elements of society. The result is that 'truth' is whatever you can convince people it is. It's exactly what Orwell wrote about.”
― David Baldacci

“I did it over lunch. I'm not that fast, but the computers I use are, and the databases they have access to are truly immense."
"Can the FBI borrow you for like the rest of your life?" interjected Blum.”
― David Baldacci, Daylight

“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: “Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words

“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith