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“I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now—"
"A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year...”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year...”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.”
― Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
― Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
“Don't think this means I'm giving up. There's more than one way to decapitate a hellhound, and as it so happens, I know them all.”
― Every Other Day
― Every Other Day
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.”
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“You wouldn’t dare!”
I cocked my head at him and thought about it.
“Why do people say that?” I asked. “I don’t understand it. It’s like demanding whatever it is actually be done. It’s tantamount to daring me to do it.”
― Shadows
I cocked my head at him and thought about it.
“Why do people say that?” I asked. “I don’t understand it. It’s like demanding whatever it is actually be done. It’s tantamount to daring me to do it.”
― Shadows
“The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea . . . maybe . . . but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.”
― Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life
― Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life
“Robert Louis Stevenson wa Uskochi aliponukuu nahau ya ‘kamera haiwezi kudanganya’ katika kitabu chake cha ‘South Seas’ mwaka 1896, miaka 57 baada ya sanaa ya upigaji wa picha kugunduliwa, hakumaanisha tuwe asili. Hakumaanisha tusizirekebishe picha zetu baada ya kuzipiga na kuzisafisha! Alimaanisha tuwe nadhifu tuonekanapo mbele za watu au mbele ya vyombo vya habari; ambapo picha itapigwa, itasafishwa, itachapishwa na itauzwa kama ilivyo bila kurekebishwa.”
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“Some people’s eyes are blind, but not their hearts. Some people can see, but their hearts are blind.”
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“Imagine if you will:
At the highly secretive, largely independent, inter-dimensional and (inevitably) clandestine organization called the Time Saving Agency, there is a saying that goes: ‘You can’t break an omelet without first making eggs’. While this may appear to be a rather flippant little idiom, there is – as is usually the case, far more to it than meets the eye.”
― The Time Saving Agency
At the highly secretive, largely independent, inter-dimensional and (inevitably) clandestine organization called the Time Saving Agency, there is a saying that goes: ‘You can’t break an omelet without first making eggs’. While this may appear to be a rather flippant little idiom, there is – as is usually the case, far more to it than meets the eye.”
― The Time Saving Agency
“When he leaves home to sow his oats—"
"Wild oats, Tasha. They have to be wild. Unless he ran off to be a farmer.”
― Be My Wolff
"Wild oats, Tasha. They have to be wild. Unless he ran off to be a farmer.”
― Be My Wolff
“You look like a little thundercloud hovering in the middle of a field of sunshine."
I bit back a sigh and faced Kalen. "Im flattered you made all this effort to keep the thundercloud company.”
― The Heart Forger
I bit back a sigh and faced Kalen. "Im flattered you made all this effort to keep the thundercloud company.”
― The Heart Forger
“Jade does not loose its brilliance even if it breaks and the bamboo does not bend even if it burns.”
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“Those with no concerns, have no regard for life. Those who have found love, have no fear of death.”
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“The life of a soldier far from the cannon's roar has little glamour to it.”
― The Guns of the South
― The Guns of the South
“Yeah, well, if something goes wrong, it'll give me a chance to shoot your ass and save the taxpayers a lot of money," Fulton said and looked again in the mirror. The humor was gone from Kane's face, replaced by a mask of such malevolence that the detective was suddenly re minded of one of his mother's old sayings about letting sleeping dogs lie.”
― Counterplay
― Counterplay
“During my first semester on campus, I was pretty shocked at how open everything was. I'd hear girls in the dorm talking about hooking up with guys they just met, and I wasn't even totally sure what that meant. Half the time, I'm still not sure, because it seems like different people mean different things. To some, it's just making out, but to others, it means sleeping with someone, and to others something in between, if you know what I mean. I spent a big chunk of my freshman year trying to unscramble the code.”
― The Longest Ride
― The Longest Ride
“That a Poet describes nothing so happily, as what he has seen; nor talks masterly, but in his native Language, and proper Idiom; nor mimicks truly other Manners, than those whose Originals he has practised and known.”
― An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer
― An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer
“Fool me once, the man will eat for a day. Lead a horse to water, shame on him who drinks for a lifetime.”
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“She who fights and runs away, may live to cower another day!”
― The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
― The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
“The phrase, ‘dollars to donuts’ came suddenly to mind. Because of the last several decades of hyperinflation, the phrase has been replaced by ‘donuts to dollars,’ the former having so much more value now than the latter. David was amused that the juxtaposed saying held true despite being entirely reversed from its original meaning.”
― The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
― The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
“If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”
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