Quotes (Page 40)!

  1. "I imagine man looked funny to other animals when we first appeared." ~Father Peregrine in "The Fire Balloons"
  2. "The way I see it there's a Truth on every planet. All parts of the Big Truth. On a certain day they'll all fit together like the pieces of jigsaw....This Truth here is as true as Earth's Truth, and they lie side by side. And we'll go on to other worlds, adding the sum of the parts of the Truth until one day the whole Truth will stand before us like the light of a new day." ~Father Stone in "The Fire Balloons"
  3. "Why should I hold on to things I can't use? I'm practical. If Earth isn't here for me to walk on, you want me to walk on a memory? That hurts. Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them. They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry." ~Hitchcock in "No Particular Night or Morning"
  4. "I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead in a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand." ~Hitchcock in "No Particular Morning or Night"
  5. "Enough. When science has spoken, one can only remain silent thereafter!" ~Professor Lidenbrock
  6. "Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth." ~Professor Lidenbrock
  7. "I'm lost in my subject at eighty degrees north and forty degrees below. I'm catching cold just from writing. That's all right in the summer we're having." ~Jules Verne while writing The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
  8. "What I'd like to be above all is a writer..." ~Jules Verne
  9. "It can be seen that, although the field of conjectures was extremely limited, imaginations still found a way of getting lost there." ~Jules Verne (as translated by William Butcher), The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
  10. "[Dr. Clawbonny's] eyes, small like those of witty men, and his mouth, large and mobile, were three safety valves which enabled him to let out this overflow of himself." ~Jules Verne (as translated by William Butcher), The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
  11. "I am said to be learned; that is a mistake, commander: I know nothing, and if I have published a few books that are selling not too badly, I was wrong; the public is very kind to buy them! I do not know anything, I repeat, except that I know nothing." ~Dr. Clawbonny
  12. "The happiest animal would be a snail which could grow a shell when it wished, and I will try to be an intelligent snail." ~Dr. Clawbonny
  13. "Sailors with a good ship under their feet can go to the ends of the world." ~Johnson from The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
  14. "That's just the problem: the bears seem very rare and wild; they're not civilized enough to come and get shot." ~Dr. Clawbonny
  15. "If you intend us to die of cold, we request that you inform us." ~Richard Shandon
  16. "Nothing is worse than fur neckpieces or mufflers, soon stiffened by the ice; in the evening they could only have been removed with a hatchet, not a convenient way to get undressed, even in the Arctic." ~Jules Verne (as translated by William Butcher), The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
  17. "Optical illusions are the only illusions left to me, my friends, but it won't be easy to lose them!" ~Dr. Clawbonny
  18. "[I'm not a genius], my friend; I'm only a man who's read a lot and has a good memory." ~Dr. Clawbonny
  19. "You can't swim 300 miles, even if you're the best Briton on earth. Even patriotism has its limits." ~Johnson from The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
  20. "Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being men!" ~Dr. Clawbonny
  21. "Comets are the deus ex machina; every time you're embarrassed in cosmography, you bring in a comet. It is the most helpful heavenly body I know, for at the slightest sign from scientists it does its level best to fix everything!" ~Dr. Clawbonny
  22. "Passports never serve any other purpose than to annoy honest citizens and help criminals escape." ~Detective Fix
  23. "As for seeing the town, [Phileas Fogg] did not even think of it, being of that breed of Britons who have their servants do their sightseeing for them." ~Jules Verne (as translated by William Butcher), Around the World in Eighty Days
  24. "Fogg would never [dress an unconscious woman], but it's in Passepartout's nature." ~My Jules Verne prof
  25. "With the devil-may-care attitude of the Americans, one can say that when they play safe, one would be crazy not to play safe as well." ~Jules Verne (as translated by William Butcher), Around the World in Eighty Days
  26. "A storyteller who charms and captivates a whole generation is someone, of that you can be sure." ~Jules Claretie, Jules Verne: C�lebrit�s contemporaines
  27. "The Earth has seven continents: Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australasia--and Jules Verne. Every person born this century was brought up on white milk and red books." ~Claude Roy, Les Commerce des classiques
  28. "I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me." ~Jules Verne
  29. "Dr. Custos, he was an honourable practitioner who, following the example of his colleagues, cured his patients of all their illnesses, except the one they died from: a disagreeable habit that has been picked up, unfortunately, by all the members of the medical profession, whichever country they practise in." ~Jules Verne (as translated by Andrew Brown), A Fantasy of Dr. Ox
  30. "Chapter 14: In which things aer taken so far that the inhabitants of Quiquendone, the readers, and even the author demand that it all be brought to an end" ~Jules Verne (as translated by Andrew Brown), A Fantasy of Dr. Ox
  31. "Chapter 16: In which the intelligent reader clearly sees that he had guessed correctly, despite all the author's precautions" ~Jules Verne (as translated by Andrew Brown), A Fantasy of Dr. Ox
  32. "In a letter to John Paul Bocock in November 1887, Stevenson argued that [The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde] was a study in hypocrisy, not sexuality, and that in any case sexuality in a story was usually only the vehicle from analysis, not the subject itself." ~Martin A. Danahay, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Critics"
  33. "I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name. No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask." ~Mr. Enfield from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ("queer" in this case of course meaning "weird")
  34. "The whole of my published fiction should be the single-handed product of some Brownie, some Familiar, some unseen collaborator, whom I keep locked in a back garret, while I get all the praise and he but a share (which I cannot prevent him getting) of the pudding." ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Chapter on Dreams"
  35. "So our friendships are made; there is no difficulty about them, no diffidence; you try a man as you would a brand of tobacco; if you agree, then you are friends; if not, why then you are but two blind cockchafers who have collided with each other in a summer night, and boom away again each in his own direction." ~Arthur Ransome, Bohemia in London
  36. "Perhaps we have lost the true threat, the true violence, of Stoker's King Vampire because for a century which has seen the Somme, Hiroshima, the Holocaust, "ethnic cleansings" in the Balkans and attempted genocide in Rwanda, the cold impersonal horror he personifies and portends is too uncomfortably close to home. Perhaps Auerbach is right: the monster is not Victorian England, the monster is us." ~Glennis Byron, "The Vampire Today"
  37. "Mem., under what circumstances would I not avoid the pit of hell?" ~Dr. John Seward
  38. "Some of the 'New Women' writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won't condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself." ~Mina Murray
  39. "The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall; but the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow." ~Dr. John Seward
  40. "He went to the door and opened it; a most unnecessary proceeding it seemed to me. I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability in between us; a personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea." ~A reporter in Dracula
  41. "My thesis is this: I want you to believe....To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of a big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him; but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe." ~Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
  42. "False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness: and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened." ~Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
  43. "At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels.'" ~Peter David
  44. "And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it." ~Peter David
  45. "[The skyscrapers] led him to conclude that modern man was incapable of doing anything with genuine flair, but was able to turn out rubbish in staggeringly impressive fashion." ~Peter David, Knight Life
  46. "We swear our undying allegiance to the man with the Day-Glo sword and the submersible girlfriend." ~Buddy from Knight Life
  47. "You rule a kingdom of one...unless you planned to return and lay claim as king of all the Britons. I can just see it! I wonder how they would react, those ineffectual, impotent figureheads who do nothing for the populace except provide them with tidbits to gossip about in taverns at tea time. There you'll be, presenting yourself as the once and future king. What the [smegging Tartarus] do you think will happen? Do you think the queen is liable to step down and say, 'Good of you to show, old sod. We've spent centuries keeping your place warm. Have the throne.' Perhaps they'll revoke the Magna Carta for you. That would be a sweet thing. Disband the House of Commons, House of Lords, put you in charge of the whole affair? Eh?" ~Merlin to King Arthur
  48. "...the Grail Knight, yes. Percival. Who were you expecting, Galahad? Great, whining, virgin twit. Never had any patience for him." ~Merlin
  49. "Don't allow whimsies of happenstance to be confused with patterns of fate." ~Merlin
  50. "Kings don't get wistful. 'Wist' isn't even a word. You can be prideful, scornful, hateful. You can't be full of something that doesn't even exist. Wist. Stupid concept: He's full of wist. Cannot happen." ~Merlin
  51. "Why couldn't the Christian Savior have drank from a paper cup and crumbled the thing?" ~Sir Percival
  52. "She's a harmless, normal, nonreincarnated woman!" ~Merlin
  53. "The only difference between science and magic, Gwen, is that scientists doubt everything and magicians doubt nothing. That's why magicians get so much more done. And if scientists acknowledged that magic existed and put their considerable talents to discovering what made it tick, a great deal more could be accomplished in this world. But scientists have decided that magic does not and cannot exist, so naturally they don't go out of their way to try and find the reasons for it. Very shortsighted on their part." ~King Arthur
  54. "I'll tell you a secret, my child--good, evil, it's all subjective. No one really knows what good and evil are, except those in charge invariably judge themselves good, and those who are not, are judged evil by those who have judged themselves good." ~Morgan Le Fay
  55. "Fascinating thing, a bagel. Not quite a donut, but not quite a muffin. Not quite anything, and yet it's everything. All things to all people. It's the brunch of baked goods." ~Merlin
  56. "The last thing that went through his mind, for no reason that he could possibly discern, was a sudden craving for an ice cream sandwich." ~Peter David, Knight Life
  57. "Look! There's demons and there's demons. We're all pretty much alike to you mortals, like you're pretty much all alike to us. Some of us just handle tension better than others." ~Morty the Demon
  58. "Now that's the kind of forward looking backward thinking that I intend to make the hallmark of my career!" ~King Arthur
  59. "I give up. The entire gender makes no sense to me at all." ~Merlin
  60. "Destiny almost buggered you. Maybe you and destiny should declare a truce for a while." ~Gwen Queen
  61. "Vimes unfolded the copy of the Times that Cheery had left on his desk. He always read it at work, to catch up on the news that Willikins had thought unsafe to hear whilst shaving." ~Terry Pratchett, Thud!
  62. "Don't try to put me at my ease, Miss von Humpeding. It makes me nervous when people do that. It's not as though I have any ease to be out at." ~Commander Samuel Vimes
  63. "The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not...what do they call it...go postal? Treat this as a learning exercise. Find out why the world is not as you thought it was. Assemble the facts, digest the information, consider the implications. Then go postal. But with precision." ~Terry Pratchett, Thud!
  64. "Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks around, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves." ~Terry Pratchett, Thud!
  65. "[Vimes] ought to be springing into action. Once upon a time, he would have done. But now, perhaps he should take those precious moments to work out what he should do before he sprang." ~Terry Pratchett, Thud!
  66. "No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses." ~Commander Samuel Vimes
  67. "Everyone wants something from Vimes, even though I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. [Tartarus], I'm probably a spoon." ~Commander Samuel Vimes
  68. "I don't gallivant! I've never gallivanted. I don't know how to vant! I don't even have a galli!" ~Commander Samuel Vimes
  69. "No, definitely no pocus. Possibly a little hocus." ~Commander Samuel Vimes to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully
  70. "What bits of [Vimes'] body weren't aching? He checked. No, there seemed to be none. His ribs were carrying the melody of pain, but knees, elbows, and head were all adding trills and arpeggios. Every time he shifted to ease the agony, it moved somewhere else. His head ached as if someone was hammering on his eyeballs." ~Terry Pratchett, Thud!
  71. YOU SEE, YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR-VIMES EXPERIENCE. DON'T MIND ME. CARRY ON WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING. I HAVE A BOOK. ~Death
  72. "I'm glad to see you up and about again. This is a historical day! And you still have a soul, it appears! Isn't that nice?" ~Grag Bashfullsson
  73. "His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much." ~Terry Pratchett, Thud!
  74. "He'd hoped that it might evaporate if he didn't think about it." ~Terry Pratchett, Thud!
  75. "Never trust a silver platter." ~Long John Silver
  76. "Pep rally � some assembly required." ~the Middleton High sign
  77. "Nature wouldn't have put in more fat than a stick of butter." ~Mr. Barkin about fast food
  78. "Oh, what fresh [Tartarus] is this?" ~Dr. Frasier Crane
  79. "Kill Squire Trelawny and Mr. Bimbo, and you'll have to...negotiate strenuously." ~Rizzo the Rat
  80. "Oh, yes, I like The Doctor. It's funny but, as soon as he walked in, I felt that you could trust him. But why does he wear those funny clothes?" ~Vicki
  81. "My gut tells me...and it's all screwed up these days..." ~Dad the night before he had a tumor removed from this GI tract
  82. "I'd rather die...I mean it. I would rather die. It's better to die than to live like you, a bitchy trampoline." ~Rose Tyler on plastic surgery
  83. "Everything has its time. Everything dies." ~The Ninth Doctor
  84. "HR nightmares here at Dunder Mifflin? I don't know if I'd call them that, you know. 'Nightmare' implies it's something you wake up from." ~Toby Flenderson
  85. "Generally you're supposed to ask people before you start taking their body parts." ~Earl Hickey
  86. "I'm now beginning to wonder if crack is enough to truly describe the utter cracktasticness that is the Tenth Doctor. It's crack, sugar, and smexyness all in one..." ~JesIdres
  87. "Brad Paisley equals duck crap." ~Duckie (who actually does love Brad Paisley very much)
  88. "I've got a friend who specializes in trouble. He dives in and usually finds a way." ~Ian Chesterton about the First Doctor
  89. "I think I saw the one where he was going back in time." ~Hillary on Doctor Who
  90. "Is that the moon? No, it's a Shell sign." ~Duckie
  91. "I'm good at smelling boys." ~Duckie
  92. "I killed a mirror...and my shower door." ~Mort Rainey
  93. "Sometimes at the end of a sentence, I come out with the wrong fuse box." ~E. Henry Thripshaw
  94. "[The coconut] was kind of gross, especially when he told us it was an endosperm. I don't know what that means, but it has the word 'sperm' in it." ~A guy in my Jules Verne class
  95. "It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson." ~Christian Bale
  96. "I wasn't excited, I was hysterical. There's a huge difference between hysteria and excitement." ~Sam from Laurel Canyon
  97. "I'm not getting sucked into the vortex of your insanity again." ~Dr. James Wilson
  98. "I killed a woman. Don�t you think it's appropriate that I feel like [garbage] for awhile?" ~Dr. Eric Foreman
  99. "To [Tartarus] with him; he doesn't have a beard." ~Stephen Colbert
  100. "I wouldn't eat that if I were me." ~Hillary

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