Quotes - Pranjal Singh (India) Showing 1-24 of 24

#1

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: game-of-thrones, george-r-r-martin, song-of-ice-and-fire, tyrion-lannister

2044 likes

#2

“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: abilities, song-of-fire-and-ice, tyrion-lannister

1086 likes

#3

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: humor, semantics, suspicion

4584 likes

#4

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

2651 likes

#5

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: first-sentence, opening-lines

2225 likes

#6

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

2613 likes

#7

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

1436 likes

#8

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: first-sentence, opening-lines

1395 likes

#9

“All this happened, more or less.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: first-sentence

1034 likes

#10

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

tags: cockroaches, first-sentence, insects, transformation

678 likes

#11

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: fiction, first-lines, ireland, opening-lines, shaving

361 likes

#12

“That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: opening-lines

245 likes

#13

“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

tags: first-lines, inspirational, life-and-death, opening-lines

216 likes

#14

“The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain,” explains a god. “And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free.”
― Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

9 likes

#15

“You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

120 likes

#16

“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: first-lines, opening-lines

173 likes

#17

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

173 likes

#18

“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: inspirational

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#19