Cattivity Quotes & Sayings

No-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away ... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence. — Terry Pratchett

And I must smile and dance with this man, and say nothing, for he holds the key to the prison my life has become. — Victoria Lamb

Mediocre work stutters, good work whispers, great work speaks, but extraordinary work shouts. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What the hell is so funny?"
"First of all," she said, her confidence growing, "they're not my MASTERS. I don't have a MASTER. Second, they don't need a battalion to take you down. And third
and this is really the most important point
whoever said I came alone? — Derek Landy

I had to decide on the kind of life I wanted to live and live it. — Ari Goldman

What Sherlock does is train his mind to remember details, access them as needed, and then spy the hidden pattern in them. It's like spotting animals in clouds: The vapor's the same for everyone, but sometimes you're the only person who can see what's floating there, because you have the proper angle and the imagination to see it. And that's the magic of Sherlock Holmes - his talent for synthesis and discovery. Anyone can train the mind to absorb and recall; — Kevin Hearne

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms. — Khaled Hosseini

Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures. — Rita Mae Brown

I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me. — Lamont Dozier

I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will. — Cassandra Clare

I remembered my question! Did you find a partner? — Maria Kanellis

I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies — Margaret Atwood

Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life. — Tony Robbins