Striking Sentence
 

Quote a striking sentence and name the book you found it.

Like so:


"- for the small malices which you misname their loves and believes and hopes and loyalties."

The Power that Preserves by Stephen Donaldson

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

Said by "The King" - - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

"(his cat he calls her, but she owns him not)"

Sauron's claim on Shelob (the gaint spider) in Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"



From Shakespeare's Richard III



(probably THE most well known phrase ever?)

"The other side says that the universe has all the logic of a little kid in a Halloween cowboy suit with his guts and his trick-or-treat candy spread all over a mile of Interstate 95."

- Stephen King as Richard Bachman, Rage

“In life as in surfing, there are waves that if you dare to ride them will kill you, and there are waves that will give you the ride of your life and all we are really doing in our short time on this big round ball is paddling around trying to figure out which ones are which.”

Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty

'Sorrow is born and lives and dies.'

from I am David - Anne Holm

"Bond, James Bond"

from Dr. No - Ian Fleming

" 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' "

George R. R. Martin
-A Feast For Crows

'Beware what you ask for, Gwenhwyfar, for the Goddess may grant it to you.....'


The Mists of Avalon - Marion Bradley

"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Memories rolled in his mind like the toothless mutterings of old women.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune.

"And with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like patience on a monument, smiling at grief."

-Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"We played a lot of Bob Dylan music that night, and for a long time afterward I thought about crabs every time i heard his voice"

-Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels.

"Tryin' to catch an awd ewe on top pasture and upskittled meself in a rabbit hole."

The Lord God made them all - James Harriot

". . . from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."

spoken by Ahab, in Moby Dick - by Herman Melville

"A raw timber of contempt ran through the voice, scraping Covenant's nerves as it passed."


Lord Foul's Bane - Stephen Donaldson

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Journals (1867)

Well I'm convinced the whole day long, That all I learn is always wrong, and things are true that I forget, But no one taught that to me yet...


Phish, Billy Breathes

'I cannot cross another river.'

The inscription on MacLeod's sword hilt - Highlander by Garry Douglas

[...] Here at least
we shall be free; the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
to reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 258-63.

"Dear Lord, the gods have been good to me. As an offering, I present these milk and cookies. If you wish me to eat them instead, please give me no sign whatsoever ... thy will be done." - by Homer Simpson, from Simpsons comic book

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," inscription on the gate of hell, "Inferno," Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

"You are very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"


After Bertrand Russel gave a lecture on astronomy, an old lady claimed that the world was flat and supported by a giant turtle. This was her answer after he asked her what the turtle was standing on.

from a Brief History of Time - Stephan W Hawking.

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature"

By Michael Faraday, written in his labratory journal, entry #10,040, 19 March 1849

from: Julius Caesar
Act I, Scene I

by: that English guy


Marullus: Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
What tributaries follow him to Rome
To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Have you climb’d up to walls and battlements,
To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...

"I do not know how I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Isaac Newton about himself
in God Created the Integers - edited by Stephen Hawking.

"You are creatures of light, we read. From light have you come, in light shall you go, and surrounding you through every step is the light of your infinite being."

"One" by Richard Bach

"Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows..."

from 'subterranean homesick blues'

by that kid from minnesota

"It was the day my grandmother exploded" - opening line from Iain Banks' Crow Road.

One of my favourite books of all time.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office...

by: that ancient greek fable guy

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last...

by: that british guy with the big cigar

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain...

by: that anonymous guy

" There are other worlds than this......"
Steven King, The Dark Tower (The Drawing of the Three)

Nora: Pretty girl.
Nick: Yes. She's a very nice type.
Nora: You got types?
Nick: Only you, darling. Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
********************************************
Reporter: Say listen, is he working on a case?
Nora: Yes, he is.
Reporter: What case?
Nora: A case of scotch. Pitch in and help him.
********************************************
Nick: I'm a hero. I was shot twice in the Tribune.
Nora: I read where you were shot 5 times in the tabloids.
Nick: It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids.
*********************************************
Nora: Take care of yourself
Nick: Why, sure I will.
Nora: Don't say it like that! Say it as if you meant it!
Nick: Well, I do believe the little woman cares.
Nora: I don't care! It's just that I'm used to you, that's all.
*********************************************
Nora: You asleep?
Nick: Yes!
Nora: Good... I want to talk to you.


quotes by Nick and Nora Charles from The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Holey rusted metal, Batman! The ground. It's all metal. It's full of holes. You know, holey.

- Robin

there are other worlds than this..
the dark tower, drawing of the three

"I had to wonder why the Council bothered with the embargo."

IMAGER - L. E. Modesitt, Jr.