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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?
SOHEIR KHASHOGGI He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depend...
PAUL RAND I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS If a person is consistently true to his words, then it will not be heard by the most people but by a...
ANUJ SOMANY But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most im...
C.G. JUNG She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her...
FRANK L. DESILVA All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And...
PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.
PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.
PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the ...
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the ...
PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of ...
PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head.
MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becom...
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be c...
PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time...
PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ...
PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.
PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but.
PAUL DICKSON The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has ...
JOHN C. DANFORTH The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a le...
DENNIS PRAGER Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ough...
JAMES MADISON Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
DAN BROWN Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be...
AMANDA WARD EYRE Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.
DAVID BYRNE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
KHALIL GIBRAN Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
KAHLIL GIBRAN It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being co...
NEEL MUKHERJEE When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Help your father
As he ages
And loses his strength
For it was he who sheltered you RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.
CARROLL BRYANT Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential ...
GABRIELLE UNION And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY

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FEIST I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, a...
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CONNIE FEIST The noise level from those women has been measured as being higher than a jet.
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CONNIE FEIST The real serious runners are at the front of the pack.
CONNIE FEIST It's a real good experience. It's a huge event out there.
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RAYMOND E. FEIST Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.
RAYMOND E. FEIST Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.
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RAYMOND E. FEIST Just remember that in most things, right or wrong depends on where you’re standing at the moment. ...
RAYMOND E. FEIST You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.
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RAYMOND E. FEIST All his life he has been in the shadow of Grandfather, and of the man for whom he was named."
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