A Good Thriller discussion

Reading a quote just now made me think we all must come across quotes, lines from a passage that really stand out, make us stop and think. I thought it would be good to share them here. Can be from any book, any genre.

Can I just add please don't quote anything that might be a potential spoiler. Thanks :)

I liked this one from Broken Dolls by James Carol.

'Rehashing past successes never saved anyone's life, and reliving the failures rarely achieved anything constructive. '

Great idea Janet! And I like the James Carol quote - too true!

I don't care about circumstances. I create opportunities - Bruce Lee

It's not how many friends you have. It is about how important you are to them.

Great quotes, Ty.

The deadliest trap is the one you set for yourself.

-Raymond Chandler

(He had a million great lines, but this one sticks out the most for me.)

If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?

-- Fox Mulder, The X-Files

Oooooh, got to love a bit of Fox!! Yes, I watched them all!!

Some really good quotes.
Keep them coming!!

'Daniel-San, OK to lose to opponent. Not OK to lose to fear.' Miyagi, Karate Kid.

"Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite." - Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"There's nothing wrong with southern California that a little rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." - Ross MacDonald

Its not a famous quote but I laughed and fell I love in the book Im reading! Hope it brings a smile to someone's face:
"A hard lesson he'd learned early on, females held onto a mad like a rattled onto a rabbit." Susan Vaughan on Deadly Ground

I am loving these quotes! :)

And then there are the classics:

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

William Shakespeare
Henry V (act IV scene iii)

darn phone app should be rattler!

Lavada wrote: "darn phone app should be rattler!"

Ahh. Now it makes sense!

yea kinda help if its correct!

“All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.” -- P.D. James

"You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!" - Doctor Who

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Mark Twain

One of my favorites from A Man for All Seasons:

William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law is down and the Devil turned round on you—where would you hide, the laws all being flat?...[D]’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.

Robert Bolt

Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts
- William Jovanovich

Do or do not. There's no try.

Don't let geography alone decide your destiny.

Here's one in honor of the day.

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." George Jean Nathan

Lord Sugar on the tv show, The Apprentice, talking to one of his candidates.

"If Anne Boleyn's neck was as thick as you, she might still be alive ....!!"

Had us all in stitches!

Get rid of that James !!

Yes was funny Janet

“A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

"You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books! The best weapons in the world." Doctor Who

'One doesn’t need a past to start a new present and a new future.' The Warrior Code

Sean wrote: "Get rid of that James !!

Yes was funny Janet"

Thing is Sean, I can't see a clear cut winner at the moment.

Janet wrote: "Sean wrote: "Get rid of that James !!

Yes was funny Janet"

Thing is Sean, I can't see a clear cut winner at the moment."

You guys still have The Apprentice? And here I thought you were the cultured ones.

Laughing!! (I pull off a good act, almost!!) ;)

My favorite quote is from Groucho Marx

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

On the following quote that I like from Mark Twain. I am not exactly sure if I have it right.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Rhonda wrote: "On the following quote that I like from Mark Twain. I am not exactly sure if I have it right.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

Sadly, as wonderful as that line is, there is no evidence that Mark Twain ever said it. It remains to this day his most common misattribution. See wat Snopes has to say about it below:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp

Tom wrote: "Rhonda wrote: "On the following quote that I like from Mark Twain. I am not exactly sure if I have it right.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

Sadly, as wonderful a..."

Rhonda wrote: I guess I had it wrong but I still like the saying.

Rhonda wrote: "I guess I had it wrong but I still like the saying."

Me too.

Some good quotes on here ...

I heard this one yesterday at a book signing by Andy Weir, author of The Martian:

As a writer, I don't have to be right. I only need to make you think that I'm right.

"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things."
Tom Waits

"I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they pass by."

Douglas Adams (author of 'Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy')

Call me an old softy, but i love these song lyrics:

"The falling leaves
Drift by the window
The autumn leaves
All red and gold
I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold.

Since you went away
The days grow long...
And soon I'll hear
Old winter songs
But I miss you most of all
My darling, when autumn leaves start to fall...

'Autumn Leaves' as sung by Edith Piaf


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2s2tP...

"..she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue and cleverness."

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto." - Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian

"Somewhere up in the rigging, the monkey laughs."
Ship of Theseus

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

"Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States."
Gen. Porfirio Diaz - President of Mexico