Overzealous Fan Quotes & Sayings

My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it. — Sloane Crosley

A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water. — Bella Pollen

Harriet! I've never met anyone called Harriet in real life. I had a brief fantasy about her being Harriet Vane, because she'd be about the right age for that, except that Harriet Vane would be addressed as Lady Peter, and anyway she's fictional. I can tell the difference, really I can. — Jo Walton

I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision. — Gautama Buddha

As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch. — Judd Nelson

But you are losing money every day you are here. It's always that thing: if I hang in here just a little bit longer, things may happen.
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No matter what you want to do in London, there's a million others who are in the queue ahead of you. Everything is always a hassle, because there is just so many people wanting to do the same shit at the same time. No matter what it is. And no matter what cool idea you've had, there's somebody else who's already done it. And they're usually younger, richer and more well-connected than you.
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London is like any other kind of addiction, really. You get 5 per cent entertainment out of it, and that makes you suffer through the other 95 per cent of it. — Craig Taylor

Now it was there. Now it was growing within me like a tumor, like a second head, and it was a part of me, though it surely could not be mine, since it was so big. There it was, like a big dead animal that had once been my hand when it was still alive, or my arm. And my blood was flowing through me, and through it, as if through one and the same body. And my heart was having to make a great effort to pump the blood into the big thing: there was very nearly not enough blood. And the blood was loth to pass in, and emerged sick and tainted. But the big thing swelled and grew before my face, like a warm, bluish boil, and grew before my mouth, and already its margin cast a shadow on my remaining eye. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody would invent a chair or dish that smelled bad or that made horrible noises - why were motors invented noisy? How could they possibly be considered complete or successful inventions with this glaring defect? Unless, of course, the aggressive, hostile, assaultive sound actually served to express some impulse of the owner. — Philip Slater

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive. — Christopher Monckton

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach. — Greg Rucka

Be an example of life that you think that everybody should follow. — Debasish Mridha

I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die — M.T.

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk