David Putnam > David's Quotes

“But whither should he run? He could not run so far away that his father could not find him—his father's arm stretched to everywhere in the world.”
― Hugh Walpole, Fortitude

“Get the hell away from my boyfriend, witch.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Every fear hides a wish.”
― David Mamet, Edmond

“El arte es el intento de explicar lo inefable.”
― Luis Landero, Entre líneas: el cuento o la vida

“Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak - Simon Benford”
― Jason Matthews, Palace of Treason

“I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid-a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same of them.”
― Glendon Swarthout, The Shootist

“He thought: Oh, I have fed on honey-dew. On wine and whiskey and champagne and the tender white meat of women and fine clothes and the respect of strong men and the fear of weak and the turn of a card and good horses and the crisp of greenbacks and the cool of mornings and all the elbow room that God or man could ask for. I have had high times. But the best times of all were afterward, just afterward, with the gun warm in my hand, the bite of smoke in my nose, the taste of death on my tongue, my heart high in my gullet, the danger past, and then the sweat, suddenly, and the nothingness, and the sweet clean feel of being born.”
― Glendon Swarthout, The Shootist

“The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.”
― Glendon Swarthout, The Homesman

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Even her radiant beauty seemed to dim as he thought of the way she had fooled him.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, The Isles of the Blest

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Se escribe aún con tilde cuando se puede sustituir por todavía, y aun sin tilde cuando se puede sustituir por incluso (o siquiera).”
― Alberto Bustos, Palabras de bits, palabras de tinta (Blog de Lengua nº 1)

“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”
― Mickey Spillane

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Things are as they are, and no amount of self-deception makes them otherwise. The friend who is incapable of depression depresses us as surely as the friend who is incapable of boredom bores us. Somewhere in our hearts is a strong, though dimly understood, desire to face realities, and to measure consequences, to have done with the fatigue of pretending. It is not optimism to enjoy the view when one is treed by a bull; it is philosophy. The optimist would say that being treed was a valuable experience. The disciple of gladness would say it was a pleasurable sensation. The Christian Scientist would say there was no bull, though remaining–if he were wise–on the tree-top. The philosopher would make the best of a bad job, and seek what compensation he could find.”
― Agnes Repplier, Points of Friction

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side.”
― George Orwell, Looking Back on the Spanish War

“There are only three words you need to live by, son: respect, consideration and tolerance.”
― Oliver Jeffers, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

“Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.”
― John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

“Just feel me. Just feel me and breathe.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Above all else, never think you're not good enough.”
― Anthony Trollope

“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
― Khalil Gibran

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.”
― Enoch Powell

“She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she'd paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost