Autolycus Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings

Why do you still want to find her? The whispers taunt me. Why? Why?
It's a question they ask over and over again. And my answer is always the same. Because I decide when she can leave. Not her. — Marie Lu

Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright. — Donna Tartt

If Zed had not had witnesses he would have given her the shock of her life by kissing that furious look off her face. — Joss Stirling

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit. — Brigham Young

You can't be a bad boy without somebody scolding you. — David Rasche

A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work. — Jennifer Egan

I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect. — Brenda Brathwaite

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present. — Robert Green Ingersoll

My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. — William Shakespeare

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties. — Harold Bloom

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

Vin isn't ... like other women."
Tindwyl raised an eyebrow, her voice softening slightly.
"I think that the more women you come to know, Your Majesty, the more you'll find that statement applies to all of them. — Brandon Sanderson

Over the past 30 years, approximately 300 million people have moved into China's middle class. And according to the OECD Development Centre, the forecast is for another 200 million people to move into the middle class by 2026. This means the Asia Pacific region, which in 2009 represented 18% of the world's middle class, will reach 66 percent by 2030. Let's repeat that. Over the next 15 years, Asia will go from 20 percent to 66 percent of the world's middle class. At the same time, the developed markets of North America and Europe, which held a combined 54 percent of the global middle class in 2009, are forecast to drop to only 21 percent by 2030. Basically, follow the money. Asia's middle class consumers are the future. Learn Mandarin. — Jeffrey Towson

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. — Robert Browning

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French. — Ian Shoales

The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets. — Alain De Botton