Dunces Book Quotes & Sayings

You're saying one day I'll be a butterfly," he says skeptically. I look up. "I'm saying you've always been one. — Lindy Zart

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage. — Bruce Dickinson

We are next informed that bookworms, a term which seems to be held applicable to whoever has the smallest tincture of book-knowledge, may not be good at bodily exercises, or have the habits of gentlemen. This is a very common line of remark with dunces of condition; but whatever the dunces may think, they have no monopoly of either gentlemanly habits or bodily activity. — John Stuart Mill

You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you. — Gordon MacKenzie

Now is the time of fresh starts
This is the season that makes everything new.
There is a longstanding rumor that Spring is the time
of renewal, but that's only if you ignore the depressing
clutter and din of the season. All that flowering
and budding and birthing--- the messy youthfulness
of Spring actually verges on squalor. Spring is too busy,
too full of itself, too much like a 20-year-old to be the best time for reflection, re-grouping, and starting fresh.
For that you need December. You need to have lived
through the mindless biological imperatives of your life (to bud, and flower, and show off) before you can see that a landscape of new fallen snow is THE REAL YOU.
December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best FRESH START of your life. — Vivian Swift

I enjoy my work; sorry if that bothers you. — Jeff Lindsay

Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen. — Michael P. Naughton

I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids. — Stephan Pastis

Forgive your enemies but don't forget what they did to you — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. — Poppy Z. Brite

Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways. — Norm MacDonald

Like LeBron James, we already know how good the man is. We know he can play. He's rich. But he still want a ring. N!ggas know my music hot. That's proven. Now its time to get the ring. — Yo Gotti

If at first you don't succeed, put your feet up and drink wine. — Me

Sir Seretse Khama, — Alexander McCall Smith

Everybody's got regrets. It's a personal choice as to whether or not you can change. — Josh Duhamel

Love your scenes, and they'll love you in return. — Larry Brooks

My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about 'The X-Files,' so I'd watch that with her. — Scott Bakula

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better. — George Muller