Antic Quotes

#1. Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing ... Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.

Mark Kingwell

#2. Little towns are like little children in this respect, that they interest most when they are enacting native peculiarities unconscious of beholders. Discovering themselves to be watched they attempt to be entertaining by putting on an antic, and produce disagreeable caricatures which spoil them. The

Thomas Hardy

#3. A brand-new thought: Transatlantic airmail. She tests the phrase, scratching it out on the paper, over and over, transatlantic, trans atlas, trans antic. The distance finally broken.

Colum McCann

#4. How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on.

William Shakespeare

#5. Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.

Charlaine Harris

#6. I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

Clayton Snyder

#7. My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

Christopher Marlowe

#8. [S]ometimes in writing of myself ... I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure, an antic sound.

E.B. White

#9. Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who assumes every body in earshot knows all about his parents and history and wants to hear an update about them at every opportunity. He looks young, but still manages to act 65.

Richard Ford

#10. Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

Anne Enright

#11. The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay;
Round us in antic order their crippled vices came
Lust that had lost its laughter, fear that had lost its shame.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

Cormac McCarthy

#13. Have you ever heard of Remnants? - Skulduggery

Derek Landy

#14. He felt now as if his entire body were recovering from frostbite, and he understood suddenly why people died in blizzards. It was not because they were cold and fell asleep. It was because it hurt too much to come back to life.

Rebecca Pawel

#15. There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

Charles Mackay

#16. Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Robert G. Allen

#17. The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.

Daniel Quinn

#18. We need to get out," I said. My voice sounded raw to me. "Trouble coming."
"No," said a beautiful Sidhe baritone. "Trouble is here."
They appeared from behind their veils, one by one, with so much melodrama that I was mildly surprised that they hadn't each struck some kind of kung fu pose.

Jim Butcher

#19. Disguise is easier when you're young.

Margaret Atwood

#20. To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

William R. Alger

#21. I only know that he who makes a tie is lost, the seed of corruption has entered his heart

Joseph Conrad

#22. A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

Dan Buettner

#23. Play the music that best describes you
Make the music that comes from your Heart.

Lebogang Lynx Bopape

#24. You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

Robert Griffin III

#25. I can't go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers?

Jerry Seinfeld