17133 Quotes & Sayings

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest. — Ann Voskamp

There's always someone going to come around who can be better than the best. You want to be the first. No one can ever forget the first. — Cyhi The Prynce

Holding hands is like giving someone a mini-hug. — Cassia Leo

There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell. — Terry Pratchett

I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses. — Ben Elliot

I can think of no series of words that could appear in a piece of naturalistic fiction that could not also appear in the same order in a piece of speculative fiction. I can, however, think of many series of words that, while fine for speculative fiction, would be meaningless as naturalism. Which then is the major and which the subcategory? — Samuel R. Delany

In the face of madness, rationality was powerless. — Liu Cixin

Take my hand
and ...
feel the sand
beneath your aimless feet
towards the sparkling waves — Munia Khan

Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship. — Boris Spassky

The next year, the Court decided what is generally viewed as the major case of the early years. The decision, Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), provoked an immediate backlash, in the form of the first constitutional amendment to be ratified after the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights. — Linda Greenhouse

There's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing it, or immediately after. This, coupled with the chorus of critical reaction from those privileged to take a first look, is almost enough to discourage further work entirely. — Francis Ford Coppola