Annabeth Nass Quotes & Sayings

Admit me for more than two jots and I will not be able to attend. Admit me for less and I will be here every day, while every night I will do what it takes to stay alive while I study here. I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. I will do whatever it takes." I said the last words fiercely, almost snarling them. — Patrick Rothfuss

When a hot trend turns into a sub-category, new strictures arise along with it. Tropes turn into shortcuts, character paradigms become cardboard cutouts. Publishing pulls the bandwagon, true enough, but when feel-alike fiction floods the market its impact declines because it is starved of what makes fiction rich, surprising, moving, and masterful. — Donald Maass

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. — Augustus Hare

In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's called a repository spell. Makes something bigger on the inside than on the outside. Works great for bags, barrels, hats, just about anything really, even a 1963 police box. — Chuck

we're using our freedoms to break the bonds of community, which have long held us together. — Jen Pollock Michel

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. — Galileo Galilei

Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another. If it wasn't drugs, then there was always something else. — Brom

They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams. — Megan Abbott

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more your entertain unhappiness! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Excuse me," said the owner of the metal hand in a voice that would have made an insect of a more sentimental disposition collapse in tears.
This was not such an insect, and it couldn't stand robots.
"Yes, sir," it snapped, "can I help you?"
"I doubt it," said Marvin. — Douglas Adams

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully. — Jasper Fforde

See, I'm a big guy. I'm just about 6'8 in my boots. A slab of muscle on a frame that's almost comically large....
"So, are you completely proportionate?"
It takes me a second, maybe two, before I realize that he's asking whether I'm packing a peashooter or a rocket launcher in my shorts. — Bey Deckard

It wouldn't even make you gay if you had sex with Johnny Depp, 'cause it's Johnny Depp. — Marilyn Manson