Famous Quotes

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

~ George Carlin

He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically.“Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. That last line was four syllables.” Artemis said. Apollo frowned. “Was it?” “No, no, that’s six syllable, hhhm.” He started muttering to himself. That’s five syllables!” He bowed, looking very pleased with himself.

~ Rick Riordan

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

~ Matt Groening

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

~ J.k. Rowling

Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.

~ Rick Riordan

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

~ Gertrude Stein

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?All the time.

~ Wendy Mass

Puns are the highest form of literature.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

~ George Carlin

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

~ Howard Nemerov

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

~ Robert Benchley

It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

~ Eoin Colfer

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

~ Douglas Adams

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

~ Cassandra Clare

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness.

~ Oscar Wilde

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

~ H.l. Mencken

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

~ John Green

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

~ Oscar Wilde

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

~ Rick Riordan

Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

~ Jim Butcher

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

~ Flannery O'connor

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored

~ Cassandra Clare

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

~ Sylvia Plath

French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

~ Suzanne Collins

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

~ John Green

Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.

~ Stephenie Meyer

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

~ Christopher Paolini

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

~ Cassandra Clare

So what? All writers are lunatics!

~ Cornelia Funke

Meow” means “woof” in cat.

~ George Carlin

To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

~ Woody Allen

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

~ Groucho Marx

People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.'If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen.They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.'So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.

~ George Carlin

For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

~ J.k. Rowling

Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you...Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life? said Harry sarcastically.

~ J.k. Rowling

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection. He paused to reconsider that. Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try. (Adrian)

~ Richelle Mead

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun