Bezarius Quotes & Sayings

What a tale we have been in, Mr. Frodo, haven't we?' he said. 'I wish I could hear it told. Do you think they'll say: Now comes the story of Nine-fingered Frodo and the ring of Doom? And then everyone will hush, like we did, when in Rivendell they told us the tale of Beren One-hand and the Great Jewel. I wish I could hear it! And I wonder how it will go on after our part. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, even in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you. When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol. Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble. So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do my work quietly in school. Make only polite small talk in the public market. Discuss little more than trades in the Hob, which is the black market where I make most of my money. Even at home, where I am less pleasant, I avoid discussing tricky topics. Like the reaping, or food — Suzanne Collins

A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes through him as if he ran head-on into a stone wall.
A voice from the car says blurredly, while the ground rushes up to meet him, 'Finish him up, you guys! I'm getting so I don't trust their looks no more, no matter how stiff they act!' ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied. — Ian McKellen

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts. — James McBride

I was rejected, never given any expectations ... Then at least, I won't be a burden to others. It's alright if the only one who hurts is me ... ! — Jun Mochizuki

We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school. — Jonathan Maberry

The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three. - E. M. Forster — Ransom Riggs

I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed. — Jun Mochizuki

We're not pumpkins. We're stunning autumn gourds. — Penny Reid

The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off. — Ray Kurzweil

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse ... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil. — C.S. Lewis

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments. — Tom Coburn

A man who hasn't left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive. — Hanif Kureishi