Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003
- I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
- James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
- [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
- Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
- She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.
- Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
- Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
- There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
|