Quotes (Page 35)!

  1. "Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's the fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat litter because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next." ~Adam Johnson, "A Call for Collaboration"
  2. "Every writer is given a gift or two--not much more--and his or her job is to learn the rest of the skills, so form and voice can be given to any character who comes along. One beginning writer will have an ear for dialogue, another is mellifluously lyrical. So it goes for description, humor, voice, and so on. Every writer can track his or her progression from leaning on the crutch of one skill until a new one was acquired." ~Adam Johnson, "A Call for Collaboration"
  3. "I think of the test of a novel as a blueprint and the novelist as architect and builder. I might specify where the walls and windows go, the height of the ceilings; I'll decide onthe elevation and orientation, but the readers provide their own experience and tastes and furniture. They paint the walls and move the doors and put in light fixtures, add the hideous horsehair sofa and hand wishy-washy watercolors over the fireplace. One person moves into my text and turns it into a chintzy cottage; for another it becomes a minimalist temple. Every reader inhabits a different novel." ~Nicola Griffith, "As We Mean to Go On"
  4. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darnedest things in the margins of their books." ~Tara Bray Smith, "Marginalia and Other Crimes"
  5. "Human nature keeps producing newer and technologically cannier things with which to distract itself. For instance, while writing this essay, I have been playing speed games of computer chess. No doubt Willa Cather and John Cheever had their own distractions from writing, but the ability to swap queens with their typewriters was not one of them." ~Tom Bissell, "Distractions"
  6. "Reading gives one something to think about other than oneself. The rise of literacy in the West and the collapse of despotism and the mortal wounding of Christian fundamentalism are surely not happy coincidence. I will not make the spinachy claim that reading makes one a 'better person' (the battlefield of literature is filled with too many psychic casualties for that to be true) or that a nation of readers guarantees social justice and harmony. The wicked can and have been astoundingly literate. But a nation of readers would go some way toward ridding a culture so afflicted by solipsism, parochialism, crudeness, and apathy." ~Tom Bissell, "Distractions"
  7. "Just when it appears that a new medium is going to replace its predecessor, we tend to figure out the true value of the older." ~Douglas Rushkoff, "A computer Ate My Book"
  8. "Real books are more than mere repositories for information. They are objects, and they are meant to be experienced as such. the function of a dictionary is to provide the meaning of a word. The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. It's more than a transmission of data: It's a transmission of essence." Douglas Rushkoff, "A Computer Ate My Book"
  9. "Posilutely absitive." ~Darkwing Duck
  10. "General psychosis and freakiness all around." ~Tom Servo
  11. "The system sucks." ~Jane Lane
  12. "If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off." ~A bumper sticker
  13. "I'd kill to have a body like yours...in my trunk!" ~A bumper sticker
  14. "I look weird, but I'd kick you [tail feathers] on Jeopardy." ~A bumper sticker
  15. "To be dead. To be nothing. To watch Neptune Men no more." ~Crow T. Robot
  16. "[Trent] tries not to make any sudden movements...or gradual ones." ~Daria Morgendorffer
  17. "Some magic is real." ~Cole Sear
  18. "I didn't think it was possible. Humanity is actually getting dumber." ~The Brain
  19. "I intend to live forever. So far, so good." ~Modern day proverb
  20. "Singed but triumphant!" ~Darkwing Duck
  21. "You, sir, are an idiot." ~Krusty the Clown
  22. "Run for it! He's going to reminisce!" ~Gosalyn Mallard
  23. "Yes, yes, what is your pathetic, insignificant little point?" ~Don Karnage
  24. "Not only am I a genius, but I am very, very smart, too!" ~Don Karnage
  25. "Only his eyes still said that whatever it was the Universe thought it was doing to him, he would still like it to please stop." ~Douglas Adams
  26. "This movie has it all...wrong." ~Crow T. Robot
  27. "Lousy real world..." ~Daria Morgendorffer
  28. "I always tell the truth, even if I have to lie to do it." ~Darkwing Duck
  29. "Honey Bunches of Death!" ~Mike Nelson
  30. "Sirs, when will you learn that by killing each other you're only hurting yourselves?" ~Joel Robinson
  31. "I will seek my revenge! But first I'm gonna snag me a Charleston Chew." ~Mike Nelson
  32. "This accelerator will speed up all the molecules in this safe, allowing me to walk in between and nab the loot. Either that, or blow up the entire city. Whatever. It'll be a blast." ~Negaduck
  33. "I am a pirate. I don't do decency." ~Don Karnage
  34. "I'm not a vandal! I'm a pirate!" ~Guybrush Threepwood
  35. "That's a guy's hand, not a sparkler, for crying out loud." ~Tom Servo
  36. "You guys watch Joe Don Baker movies?" ~Mike Nelson
  37. "We apologize for the inconvenience." ~God's final message to his creation, according to Douglas Adams
  38. "Vertigo-to-[Tartarus]." ~Mike Nelson
  39. "I'll convince them that violence isn't the answer if I have to kill them!" ~Morgana McCawber
  40. "Father, if you blow up my boyfriend, I'll never speak to you again!" ~Morgana McCawber
  41. "I never thought I'd say this, but suddenly Independence Day seems a richly nuanced film." ~Mike Nelson
  42. "You know, there are certain flaws in this film." ~Tom Servo
  43. "Worth is in the eye of me, who is doing the beholding." ~Don Karnage
  44. "When is this guy going to start showing some simple competence?" ~Joel Robinson
  45. "I heartily endorse this product and/or promotion." ~Krusty the Clown
  46. "There is always a chance, as long as one can think." ~Basil of Bakerstreet
  47. "Why do the weird ones always fall for me?" ~Darkwing Duck
  48. "Nothing like getting blown up to boost the old morale." ~Darkwing Duck
  49. "My capacity for mental activity of all kinds is as boundless as the infinite reaches of space itself. Except of course for my capacity for happiness." ~Marvin the Paranoid Android
  50. "So many adjectives, so little time." ~Darkwing Duck
  51. "Life's not fair. Get over it. The average teenager says that 86 times a day." ~Poster in the girls' locker room at PHS
  52. "Why me? Why always me?" ~Chuckie Finster
  53. "I've written a lot of stuff, but it's not up to my standards. And that disturbs me because I don't have standards." ~Daria Morgendorffer
  54. "Give me liberty, or give me a sprained ankle!" ~Cat
  55. "I'm not crazy, I just don't give a darn." ~Daffy Duck
  56. "That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure to not be able to avoid meeting." ~Marvin the Paranoid Android
  57. "In the beginning, the Universe was created...this made a lot of people angry and has widely been regarded as a bad move." ~The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  58. "Once you've got the urg, you've got to move." ~Norbert
  59. "This is how I like to fish, Mike: a flashlight and a flamethrower." ~Tom Servo
  60. "Your tail section is mine!" ~Don Karnage
  61. "You've tried your best and you failed miserably. And the lesson is, never try." ~Homer J. Simpson
  62. "I feel so insignificant! Of course, I always feel insignificant." ~Crow T. Robot
  63. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." ~Modern day proverb
  64. "Hey, I'm a kid. I'm supposed to be irresponsible." ~Gosalyn Waddlemeyer
  65. "Looks like young Arnold has another one of his complex, Labyrinthine conundrums of a boyhood problem." ~Grandpa Phil
  66. "Cheer, cheer, cheer/Yell, yell, yell/Who cares who wins?/We're all going to [Tartarus]." ~Jane Lane
  67. "Larry works in mysterious ways." ~Boyd Crossman
  68. "This is wrong. ALL wrong. And in definite need of repair." ~Megavolt
  69. "I have that icky feeling in the pit of my stomach again..." ~Darkwing Duck
  70. "She's Zest-fully dead!" ~Tom Servo
  71. "I think it was a beum...A beum...Yes, the exploding kind!" ~Inspector Jaques Clouseau
  72. "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." ~Douglas Adams
  73. "If practice makes perfect, and nobody is perfect, then why practice?" ~Modern day proverb
  74. "There is a curse. They say, 'May you live in interesting times.'" ~Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
  75. "You have the IQ of a deck chair." ~The Brain
  76. "You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool." ~Wonko the Sane
  77. "Support bacteria; they're the only culture some people have." ~Modern day proverb
  78. "There's something gaining on us! Oh, it's just the top. I'm intensely stupid." ~Crow T. Robot
  79. "Fair is a place where hogs compete for ribbons." ~Unknown
  80. "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission." ~Modern day proverb
  81. "Okay, so I don't practice what I preach. I'm a parent; I can get away with it." ~Darkwing Duck
  82. "Shoot them a lot! Perforate them, you pinheads!" ~Don Karnage
  83. "What is it about the Gates of [Tartarus] that compels people to wander into them?" ~Crow T. Robot
  84. "Hey! It's the Came-With-the-Frame family!" ~Mike Nelson
  85. "Zaphod's calmed down a lot, you know...at least one of his heads is now saner than an emu on acid." ~Ford Prefect
  86. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." ~Douglas Adams
  87. "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they seem okay, then it's you." ~Unknown
  88. "Why is it no one takes me seriously unless I'm joking?" ~Cassandra
  89. "The future doesn't leave recorded messages, by the way, so you'd better be there to answer." ~Darkwing Duck
  90. "Fortunately, I never leave home without a heavy-duty hydraulic jack." ~Darkwing Duck
  91. �Just Dewy it.� ~Dexter
  92. �I am up a paddle without a creek!� ~Dexter
  93. "Perhaps it is none of my business, but you seem to have gotten yourself into a bit of a piccolo, yes no?" ~Don Karnage
  94. "Congratulations! You have not done a terrible job!" ~Don Karnage
  95. �I�m really not sinister, just misunderstood.� ~Dr. Reginald Bushroot
  96. "No one can save you now! You�re chemistry! No, not Chemistry. Math! Phys Ed? History. Yeah. You�re history!� ~Megavolt
  97. �I feel terrible stooping to such petty crimes. But you can�t imagine how expensive a thermonuclear warhead is these days.� ~Negaduck
  98. "I don�t know who your tailor is, but I suggest you sue.� ~Quackerjack
  99. "When you�ve got ten million dollars in your checking account, you can have any toy you waa-ant!� ~Quackerjack
  100. "If I had known this was going to be my last meal, I would have eaten more." ~Gosalyn Mallard

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