Ankatur Quotes & Sayings

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said ... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway. — Stephen King

You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man, but that is sadly not the case. — James MacDonald

I tried to start a gang once.
It turned into a book club.
- MEME — Darynda Jones

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind. — Horace

When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved. — P. J. O'Rourke

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. — Euripides

HAMLET [ ... ] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.
CLAUDIUS Alas, alas.
HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this?
HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. — William Shakespeare

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic. — Chris Bohjalian

Just because you can, dosen't mean you should. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled with sentiment, and I can't imagine why people find it cold. — John Banville

A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop. — Virginia Woolf

I'll hold onto it, sir," the officer said. "It will only be for a moment."
"I promised her I'd never take it off," Travis said through his teeth. — Jamie McGuire

I can always get along with an honest friend. — Harry S. Truman

How could I ever be disappointed in you, Regan? You're a little damaged. So am I. Maybe we're both a little more fucked-up than normal, but we'll be nice and fucked-up together. — Jessica Clare

...you have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself? — Paul Beatty