997 Turbo Quotes

#1. Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

Will Carleton

#2. Jesus, Lacey. You just scared me half to death."
I forced a laugh. "Only half? Damn.

Violet Cross

#3. Self-righteous wrath had planted more corpses in the ground than an empire could lay claim to,

Steven Erikson

#4. If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#5. It's a job and we're going to work together for six months, so let's have a good time.

Desmond Harrington

#6. I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.

Penn Jillette

#7. She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

Haruki Murakami

#8. His eyes flared dangerously. Did the lass think to share such intimacies with him and then rescind them? Och, nay, Dageus MacKeltar didn't go backward. She would find that out soon enough.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. Sometimes, if you ignored Steve for a minute, he moved onto someone else.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

Brad Bird

#11. Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.

Walter Kirn

#12. People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Elvis Costello

#13. The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?

Zhuangzi

#14. Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

David Berlinski