Subgenre Of Fiction Quotes & Sayings

If you ask me the man's short a hat size or two but he's harmless. Not like the Texas Kid or the Tuscon Kid. Drat, he's not even like Billy the Kid. Now those are outlaws.
His assurances did little to calm her nerves. Apparently the only bandits he took seriously were the ones belonging to a society of human goats. — Margaret Brownley

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather. — Henry David Thoreau

He'd read accounts of extravehicular euphoria, but the experience was unlike anything he'd imagined. He was the eye of God, drinking in the light of infinite stars, and he was a speck of dust on a speck of dust, clipped by his mag boots to the body of a ship unthinkably more powerful than himself, and unimportant before the face of the abyss. — James S.A. Corey

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time. — David Fincher

Well, thank you for that, Tate. I'll be sure to tell you before I start plowing my way through my little black book. — Stylo Fantome

Look at you. Why is the only woman you ever cared about a world-class criminal - are you a masochist? — Arthur Conan Doyle

No one messes me around, I don't give second chances and I never waste tears over people who aren't worth it. I save them for the people who are. — Phillipa Ashley

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. — Huey Newton

Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya. — Judith Clancy

He's an artist in London. We don't see him much."
Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?"
"No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known now for a long, long time. "Not really. Not anymore. — Hilary McKay

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it always is. — Octavia E. Butler

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. — Mindy Kaling