1780 Grand Quotes

#1. Did I offend you?" Lannister said. "Sorry. Dwarfs don't have to be tactful. Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.

George R R Martin

#2. The creature all men on Arrakis fear, you treat it like a riding animal.

Frank Herbert

#3. I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.

Alexander Chee

#4. Boswell is the first of biographers.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#5. Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God ...

Thomas De Quincey

#6. Saying No Is Actually Saying Yes To Other Things

Patrick Rhone

#7. For all that time walking the path I had wanted to break and run, but that way lies madness: you don't run from terror, not if you ever want to stop again.

Mark Lawrence

#8. The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#9. This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness.

Darrell Calkins

#10. Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.

Bobby Vinton