Famous Fictional Book Quotes & Sayings

Meet Crazy Eddie — Larry Niven

Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday - and where the flesh in most cases wins hands down with a packed suitcase. It did so now. So she did what many a researcher both great and insignificant does when they are stuck. She yawned while contemplating how to catch the Muse by surprising Her. Almost invariably, the Muse has seen it all before - and also yawns. — Mavis Cheek

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too. — Kerry King

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did. — Chi McBride

The church has a double responsibility in relation to the world around us. On the one hand we are to live, serve and witness in the world. On the other hand we are to avoid becoming contaminated by the world. So we are neither to seek to preserve our holiness by escaping from the world nor to sacrifice our holiness by conforming to the world — John R.W. Stott

I lay for hour thinking about London, my old bedroom and the Dad-shaped hole in my life. — Caroline Green

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

To live is to play at the meaning of life ... The upshot of this ... is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men. — Ernest Becker

Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah. — Bill Dedman

During this time he got news that a famous statue of Orpheus, enshrined in south Macedon, had started to sweat profusely. The seers, pondering the omen, decided that the new King's exploits would give the poets work. — Mary Renault

The first of the
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy. — Klaus Fuchs

I'd found him, and he was mine - cute little bugger that he was, messed up glasses, funky shoes and all. — Elle Casey