Bastables Quotes

#1. In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

C.S. Lewis

#2. The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Friedrich Schiller

#3. To be is to be perceived

George Berkeley

#4. The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.

Charles Bukowski

#5. I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.

Alexandre Dumas

#6. Life is not a competition.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

Arno Allan Penzias

#8. When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

John Von Neumann

#9. Okay so I fibbed a little about the kids. I didn't want her to feel bad. I mean we can't all be lucky enough to have a hamster.

Janet Evanovich

#10. They have a plentiful lack of wit.

William Shakespeare

#11. The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible.

Emily Rose

#12. It is the era that we take photos of, not the people in it, they can't be captured.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#13. Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Douglas Coupland