Ticklethyfantasy Quotes & Sayings

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. We should be grateful for that. — Robin Hobb

Perhaps when her eyes closed the sultriness of the night had changed to the momentary freshness of the turning dawn, — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of work is heavy and complicated then it is wrong." ... Some writers feel that to express their ideas in simple terms is degrading. Some use complexity to disguise the paucity of their material. In fact, simplicity is a virtue and when, as here, it is both original and useful, it can represent a real advance in knowledge. — Dennis Lindley

No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. — Uta Hagen

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays. — Brooks Robinson

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! — Neil Gaiman

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in. — Barbara Kingsolver

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults. — Desiderius Erasmus

Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently running the non-lethal weapons lab at Global Dynamics. — Wil Wheaton

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether. — Rachel McAdams

It was always a considerable annoyance to any Disc citizen with pretensions to culture that they were ruled by gods whose idea of an uplifting artistic experience was a musical doorbell.. — Terry Pratchett

It occurred to him now that people are defined much more by their association with death than by what they do in life. — Karan Mahajan