Quotidiens Quotes & Sayings

It felt nice to be spooned. It would have been better to have been forked, but at this point, I would take whatever I could get. — M.L. Ryan

Showbiz is great if you're successful. — Don Rickles

I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner. — John Tavener

I knew I wouldn't discover happiness in a faraway place or in unusual circumstances; it was right here, right now - as in the haunting play "The Blue Bird," where two children spend a year searching the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness, only to find it waiting for them when they finally return home. — Gretchen Rubin

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters. — Robin McKinley

I've been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It's like my last luxury. — Lana Del Rey

My friends always told me they wanted to rescue me from Siobhan, and I relished being saved because it meant that people stopped tapping me on the shoulder to point out what I was doing wrong. — Melina Marchetta

If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics. — Sunday Adelaja

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam — Anne Michaels

My grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali. — Fahmid Hassan Prohor

Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all. — Tad Williams

If I can see it, it's a failure — Bill Buxton

But somebody else had spoken Snape's name, quite softly.
"Severus ... "
The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleading.
Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face.
"Severus ... please ... "
Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
"Avada Kedavra!"
A jet of green light shot from the end of Snape's wand and hit Dumbledore squarely in the chest. Harry's scream of horror never left him; silent and unmoving, he was forced to watch as Dumbledore was blasted into the air. For a split second, he seemed to hang suspended beneath the shining skull, and then he fell slowly backward, like a great rag doll, over the battlements and out of sight. — J.K. Rowling

All people are alike when they sleep."

Jeremiah Lopper paraphrasing Aristotle (p. 146) — Joan Bauer

The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, he said, and turned for the door. — Jim Butcher