Cliff Notes Huckleberry Finn Quotes & Sayings

Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements. — Buzz Aldrin

Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment. — Madame Roland

Perhaps he was a stand-in for who I was, a primitive version of the me I'd lost track of and sloughed off in America. My shadow self, my picture of Dorian Gray, my mad brother in the attic, my Mr Hyde, my very, very rough draft. Me unmasked, unchained, unleashed, unfinished: me untrammeled, me in rags, me enraged. Me without books, without finish, without a green card. Me with a Kalashnikov. — Andre Aciman

Why did I ever think I would get enough of you? — Rachel Gibson

She was a bookish person who'd never been exposed to books: she was gifted with astute powers of observation, but her thoughts and feelings weren't filtered through those that she'd read, those that had been written before. She had a unique way of seeing the world and a manner of expressing herself that caught Juniper unawares and made her laugh and think and feel things anew. — Kate Morton

How can I lose to such an idiot? — Aron Nimzowitsch

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't get bored. — Haruki Murakami

If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn. — Martin Jacques

When [Japanese] women encouraged men to bask in public glory, it reminded me of the way you would indulge a child with a sweet-bean treat. — Kittredge Cherry

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. — Orson Scott Card