Quotes from books

titchinello

just been reading the interview with a vampire book, and liked this quote from it.

"people who cease to believe in god or goodness altogether still believe in the devil, i don't know why. No i indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.





do you have any quotes you like.

pandora

“…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have.
Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.”


― Nelson DeMille, The Lion

titchinello

pandora wrote:

“…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have.
Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.”


― Nelson DeMille, The Lion

i like that one

Mamasan23

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Best line I've ever read...Stephen King, Dark Tower I & VII

quimby20

Not from a book but I like it anyway:

"you know what I like about High School Girls?????? I keep getting older and they stay the same age"

Pap

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things. --- Aristotle, Metaphysics 980a (ca. 330 B.C.)

titchinello

quimby20 wrote:

Not from a book but I like it anyway:

"you know what I like about High School Girls?????? I keep getting older and they stay the same age"

Dazed and confused ... love that film

dougfloyd

Mamasan23 wrote:

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Best line I've ever read...Stephen King, Dark Tower I & VII

:thumbup:

eeriepadave

"Nevermore"- The Raven

javis el errante

About ten years ago or so I read a book entitled Talking it over by Julian Barnes, I read it for school, I didn't like it much, it wasn't that interesting, but I felt sympathy for the main character and I felt he was a cool guy, though I didn't see myself in him... the thing is that he used a phrase a lot, and I think it is a very cool phrase, and I use it everywhere, even here, in fact, sometimes, when sending emails, I have to erase the signature since it is that phrase, which reads...


I AM NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF BEING LIKED ANYMORE


it doesn't say too much about me, in fact, quite the opposite, however, I believe it is a good phrase, and it comes in handy from time to time, in specific situations with certain kind of people...

pandora

“Most guys arrived here normal, and they were shocked and sickened by the behavior of the guys who'd been here a while. Then within a few weeks, they'd stop being shocked, and within a few months a lot of them joined the club of the crazies. And most of them, I think, went home and became normal again, though some didn't. But I never once saw anyone here who had gone around the bend ever return to normal while they were still here. It only got worse because in this environment they'd lost any sense of. . . humanity. Or you could be nice and say they'd become desensitized. It was actually more frightening than sickening. A guy who'd sliced off the ear of a VC he'd killed that morning would be joking with the village kids and the old Mama-sans that afternoon and handing out candy. I mean, they weren't evil or psychotic, we were normal, which is what really scared the hell out of me.”


― Nelson DeMille, Up Country

Pap

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. --- Charles Bukowski, Factorum

rick1zoo2

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." - The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien



"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Lizard

"Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want."

- John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

rollings

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”

― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

BinauralJam

(about America) "This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "That worries about what it is."

(Shadow) "What"

"The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

rick1zoo2

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

he.who.forgets

Rollings wrote:

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”

― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

LOVE THIS

intodeep

rick1zoo2 wrote:

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Probably my favorite all time. I love this.

intodeep

You all have posted some great quotes some i know some i liked. This one is not thought provoking too much but i stil love it

"Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,” he told Haldon, “the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It’s the ones who believe in gods that make the trouble.” — Tyrion Lannister in A Dance with Dragons

pandora

“It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

I adore Nelson

Lizard

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.”

― Stephen King, The Body

Mamasan23

Lizard wrote:

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.”

― Stephen King, The Body

Man he really captured what it was like being 12 years old in that story...so amazing!

morgannspicer

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”

“If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”

“Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary...”

-Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

morgannspicer

rick1zoo2 wrote:

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

One of my favorite books

morgannspicer

intodeep wrote:

rick1zoo2 wrote:

"
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Probably my favorite all time. I love this.

Love this series and it makes me think of the movies that are also my favorite as well. VERY COOL AVATAR by the way! Love Vader. Not a Yankees fan though - haha!!

stargirl69

Pap wrote:

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. --- Charles Bukowski, Factorum

One of my favourites,ever

rollings

he.who.forgets wrote:

Rollings wrote:

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”

― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

LOVE THIS

I love it too. It's my motto.




Whenever I'm hesitant about doing something......I think of the above





.....and do it

dustinpardue

"What rat bastard psychotic would play that song at this very moment?"
-Hunter S Thompson

I quoted Hunter's line from that book in my own book referring to being at a frat party on mushrooms while KC and the Sunshine Band was playing incessently.

intodeep

morgannspicer wrote:

intodeep wrote:

rick1zoo2 wrote:

"
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Probably my favorite all time. I love this.

Love this series and it makes me think of the movies that are also my favorite as well. VERY COOL AVATAR by the way! Love Vader. Not a Yankees fan though - haha!!

Thanks