Quotes - Petencety (Vidin, 63, Bulgaria) Showing 61-90 of 777

#84

“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
― Stephen King

tags: children

756 likes

#85

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

2150 likes

#86

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

tags: on-writing, words, writing

1224 likes

#87

“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
― Stephen King

tags: on-writing

275 likes

#88

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: advice, writing

1001 likes

#89

“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

tags: memory

2919 likes

#90

“Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

tags: bella, jacob, meyer, quotes

3112 likes

#91

“Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

tags: breaking, dawn, humor, jacob, mirror, rosalie

1870 likes

#92

“Look after my heart - I've left it with you.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

tags: bella, edward, love, twilight-saga

3972 likes

#93

“And, by the way, I adore you.... in frightening, dangerous ways.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]

1040 likes

#94

“What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

tags: self-sacrifice

443 likes

#95

“Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

2279 likes

#96

“Amazing," Edward muttered. "How can someone so tiny be so annoying?"
Alice laughed. "It's a talent.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

429 likes

#97

“I’ve chosen my life — now I want to start living it.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga

tags: resolve

335 likes

#98

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

12734 likes

#99

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

6210 likes

#100

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

7519 likes

#101

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

3092 likes

#102

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

2138 likes

#103

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: full, hat, pratchett, sky, terry

1517 likes

#104

“I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
― Terry Pratchett

1269 likes

#105

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
― Terry Pratchett

1970 likes

#106

“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

tags: show-off

773 likes

#107