Bellairs John Quotes

#1. Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.

John Bellairs

#2. On a shelf over the experiment table there was the inevitable skull, which the wizard put their to remind him of death, though it usually reminded him that he needed to go to the dentist.

John Bellairs

#3. When he had brushed a thin coat of dust off the pebbled leather cover of one volume, he saw the words: Register of All Wizards and Warlocks of the South Kingdom and of the North Kingdom from the Beginning of the World to the Present Time.

John Bellairs

#4. It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

Laurie Lee

#5. Wabe. Maybe it's initials for something like Will All Babies Expectorate.

John Bellairs

#6. No medicine man or wise man knew why one man died and another lived. Wise men themselves often died before fools, and cowards before men who were brave.

Larry McMurtry

#7. I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

Ian McShane

#8. Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.

John Bellairs

#9. What a good morning it was. Tyler stood before her, six-plus feet of denim-clad hotness. A woodsy scent wafted toward her, and she inhaled deeply, loving the smell of his cologne. The man was gorgeous, and he was hers for the next twenty-four hours.

Rachel Harris

#10. There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.

John Bellairs

#11. I do not think, Prospero,' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.

John Bellairs

#12. Whatever you think you are, that's what you are

John Bellairs

#13. He had taken the precaution of closing the inside shutters of the only window, and his staff, though it leaned lightly on the door, was capable of keeping out anyone who did not want to smash his way in with an ax.

John Bellairs

#14. Yes, Mom, we're trying to save the world from a crazy guy who's using magic statues to cause terrible weather.

John Bellairs

#15. Remember when Obama was campaigning? Didn't he say he was going to close Guantanamo Bay? Didn't he say that? Apparently, he just meant for renovations.

Jay Leno

#16. He lived in a huge, ridiculous, doodad-covered, trash-filled two-story horror of a house that stumbled, staggered, and dribbled right up to the edge of a great shadowy forest

John Bellairs

#17. The two weary but still talkative wizards sat in a pair of fan-backed chairs and pitched pebbles at the drunken satyr in the fountain. They talked about wars, enchantments, and obscure facts until the sky above the forest began to be fringed with pale blue.

John Bellairs

#18. Those who are not dissatisfied will never make any progress

Shigeo Shingo

#19. Who is the wrong person to criticise?
You

Idries Shah

#20. It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

Michael Bay

#21. To fuss is human; to rant, divine!

John Bellairs

#22. He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.

John Bellairs

#23. I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.

Glenn Tipton