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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fa4b2de | You too heavy a man for me to carry...I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain't got but this one back and I don't want it broke again... | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 073e43f | When Augustus Townsend died in Georgia near the Florida line, he rose up above the barn where he had died, up above the trees and the crumbling smokehouse and the little family house nearby, and he walked away quick-like, toward Virginia. He discovered that when people were above it all they walked faster, as much as a hundred times faster than when they were confined to the earth. And so he reached Virginia in little or no time. He came to.. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 72c10bc | The truth is that banks are the last feudal kingdoms, their rulers omnipotent, divine warlords. Their key lieutenants are 'ronin' (wandering mercenary samurai) who roam financial markets ready to ally themselves to any warlord for a share of plunder. This is not the place to apply the latest management theory. | businessman-as-warrior finance financial-markets | Satyajit Das | |
| 91797ed | The routine produces. But each day, nevertheless, when you try to get started you have to transmogrify, transpose yourself; you have to go through some kind of change from being a normal human being, into becoming some kind of slave. I simply don't want to break through that membrane. I'd do anything to avoid it. You have to get there and you don't want to go there because there's so much pressure and so much strain and you just want to sta.. | John McPhee | ||
| d7d6219 | I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. | John McPhee | ||
| 03d6623 | going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside--to say, 'This is the way it was.' | John McPhee | ||
| bedfa11 | Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange. | Brian Herbert | ||
| b949152 | Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 61c662e | Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. | Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson | ||
| 04dace8 | No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls. | soul | Brian Herbert | |
| 6987a49 | When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 0c36f77 | It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized. | sin | Brian Herbert | |
| 4c7ee15 | There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious. On balance, I find much more to admire about humanity than to despise. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| e33ec06 | Some errors you can only see once you've committed them. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 73aecfb | Yes, she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something the ought to save from oblivion to describe to their children later. And that for her part she would have had it hidden, had that late summer evening buried and burned to ashes. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 060cd0c | One day,I was already old, a man came up to me in the street. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 6c3e0fc | Pienso que lo mas asombroso de llorar es que cuando empiezas, crees que no pararas nunca, pero en realidad no dura ni siquiera la mitad de lo que habias creido. | William Goldman | ||
| 9f939f8 | There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone. | William Goldman | ||
| 5a9e284 | Hay muertes, y sera mejor que entendais algo: que mueren algunas personas que no deberian morir. Preparaos, pues. Esto no es un cuento infantil. A mi nadie me lo advirtio y la culpa fue mia (dentro de poco entendereis por que os lo digo), y el error fue mio, de manera que no quiero que os pase lo mismo. Mueren algunas personas que no deberian morir, y la razon es esta: la vida no es justa. Olvidaos de todas las tonterias que os dicen vuestr.. | William Goldman | ||
| c6f2a84 | she was, through no real faults of her own, perfect. | William Goldman | ||
| 94df486 | I understand completely what you are trying to do," the Sicilian said finally, "and I want it quite clear that I resent your behavior. You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly." | William Goldman | ||
| 3517e2f | The writing is never what takes the most time. It's trying to figure what you're going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene. | William Goldman | ||
| 0e37213 | How could someone care if she were the most beautiful woman in the world or not. What difference could it have made if you were only the third most beautiful. Or the sixth. | William Goldman | ||
| 8f76881 | In the kitchen, Chub clung to the wall, made no sound whatsoever, but his mouth opened and closed, opened and closed, as he told himself, kept telling himself, that life was material, everything was material - you just had to live long enough to see how to use it. | William Goldman | ||
| e6550aa | When this is over we will see who is right, and who is dead. | William Goldman | ||
| 1aa968a | A little maybe; I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said, 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard.' ~ Westley | William Goldman | ||
| cf1b350 | Te amo -le dijo Buttercup-. Se que esto debe resultarte sorprendente, puesto que lo unico que he hecho siempre ha sido mofarme de ti, degradarte y provocarte, pero llevo ya varias horas amandote, y cada segundo que pasa te amo mas. Hace una hora, crei que te amaba mas de lo que ninguna mujer ha amado nunca a un hombre; media hora mas tarde, supe que lo que habia sentido entonces no era nada comparado con lo que senti despues. Mas al cabo de.. | best-ever goldman | William Goldman | |
| e08c81e | He's gaining on us," the Turk said. "That is also inconceivable," the Sicilian said. "Before I stole this boat we're in, I made many inquiries as to what was the fastest ship on all of Florin Channel and everyone agreed it was this one." "You're right," the Turk agreed, staring back. "He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all." | humorous vizzini | William Goldman | |
| 7e91d4b | Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters. | truth | David Morrell | |
| b7010ac | What about God? The idea embarrassed him. It was only in moments of absolute fear that he had ever thought about God and prayed to him, always embarrassed because he did not believe and felt so hypocritical when he prayed out of fear, as if in spite of his disbelief there might be God after all, God who could be fooled by a hypocrite. When he was a child, then he believed. He certainly did believe when he was a child. How did it go, the nig.. | David Morrell | ||
| c13df06 | All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always some hope, especially for cowards. I was one of them, one of those cowardly or hopeful young men who still thought the government had something to offer. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 42d27fb | Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers. | Mario Puzo | ||
| ad37a38 | Everyone is responsible for everything he does | Mario Puzo | ||
| 046943c | It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 06f73ef | He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself. | Mario Puzo | ||
| d7c9337 | Jack Woltz: Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch, let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is! Johnny Fontane will never get that movie! I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork! Tom Hagen: I'm German-Irish. Jack Woltz: Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick friend, I'm gonna make so much trouble for you, you won t know what hit you! Tom Hagen: Mr. Woltz.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 72e3396 | treachery can't be forgiven. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 3bdb016 | Among reasonable men problems of business could always be solved. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 75750d3 | Uncurious people do not lead examined lives; they cannot see causes that lie deeper than the surface. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 5c62d04 | I don't really believe that humans are evil; it is just that we are not very intelligent animals. No animal is so stupid as to foul its only nest, except humans. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| abb800a | There's no difference between a pessimist who says, 'It's all over, don't bother trying to do anything, forget about voting, it won't make a difference,' and an optimist who says, 'Relax, everything is going to turn out fine.' Either way the results are the same. Nothing gets done. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 0515d1a | On any given day in Spokane, Washington, there are more adult men per capita riding children's BMX bikes than in any other city in the world. | Jess Walter | ||
| 6a00dc4 | These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered by time and regret. | Jess Walter | ||
| 5890b90 | I guess I forgot we were going out tonight." "We always go out on Fridays." "It's Thursday, Alvis." "You are so tied to routine." | humor routine | Jess Walter |