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DYLAN MINNETTE Love, what you DO, Respect, who DOES for you, Appreciate, who DOES for others, Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK Life is a paradiddle...

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ROSS R. MASON We're riding a garbage truck. Who doesn't want to ride around on the back of a garbage truck?
CRAIG MILLER and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY DOROTHY PARKER I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. ...
DOROTHY PARKER This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. in these shitty plastic days ...
GILLIAN FLYNN A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL We did get a couple of things back. Some of it was in the truck and some of it was in a garbage can ...
BETH MCGINLEY You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a Ne...
MAGGIE WHEELER The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He's a real New Yorker, he wore the pinstripes. You got to beg me to come back here.
OZZIE GUILLEN The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK [...] orang-orang sering mengklaim lapar akan kebenaran tapi jarang yang menyukai rasanya ketika dis...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strang...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freewa...
JOHN WATERS Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Love is spelt C-O-L-O-R.
And
Color is spelt L-O-V-E.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS I think L-R-G is a leader in this game. If people haven't gone to the colors yet, they're going to.
JASON PISTORESI I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET When you meet a new day, take a deep breath and tell yourself, ' I am anew in this day
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you meet a new day, take a deep breath and tell yourself, ' I am new in this day'.
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am a New Yorker.
CONNIE STEVENS I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There have been many times in my life when I have felt helpless. It is perhaps the most acute pain a...
R.A. SALVATORE He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. WHITE Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE He thought much but said little.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
NEIL GAIMAN Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to frie...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nuance is anathema to his thinking, which is why he can maintain such fidelity to his ideas in a-hun...
JELANI COBB You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.
COLSON WHITEHEAD We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.
Arya knew which prince...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives.
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