Famous Quotes

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

~ Bill Watterson

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

~ Lewis Carroll

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

~ Cassandra Clare

What happened to your tan?--FangIt was dirt. --Max

~ James Patterson

He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs…“Okay,” Frank relented. “Sure.” He frowned at his fingers, trying to pull them out of the trap. “Uh, how do you—”Leo chuckled. “Man, you’ve never seen those before? There’s a simple trick to getting out.”Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh.Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs.“Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

~ Rick Riordan

A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.

~ Conan O'brien

Invisible things are the only realities.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

~ J.k. Rowling

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

~ Tim Burton

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

~ Suzanne Collins

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

~ Suzanne Collins

Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. I'm glad you're not a guinea pig.Me, too. I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.

~ Rick Riordan

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

~ Suzanne Collins

I often warn people: Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no I in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an I in independence, individuality and integrity.

~ George Carlin

A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

~ Lemony Snicket

For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

~ Lemony Snicket

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

~ Paul Mccartney

If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.

~ Eoin Colfer

This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.

~ Rick Riordan

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

~ Mark Twain

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

~ George Carlin

Soap?School of America in Paris he explains. SOAP.Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.

~ Stephanie Perkins

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.- Breeze

~ Brandon Sanderson

Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. - T-shirt

~ Darynda Jones

Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

~ James Patterson

I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?

~ Neil Gaiman

I turned to Dionysus. You cured him?Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple.But...you did something nice. Why?He raised and eyebrow. I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?

~ Rick Riordan

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

~ Orson Welles

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

~ Steve Martin

Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

~ J.k. Rowling

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

~ Joss Whedon

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

~ Chelsea Handler

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

~ Rick Riordan

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

~ Mae West

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

~ Flannery O'connor

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

~ Jane Austen

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

I said hello to the poodle.

~ Rick Riordan

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

~ Terry Pratchett

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

~ Charlie Chaplin