Boringly Routine Quotes

#1. I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

Julio Cortazar

#2. You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. "They are just sane people who know too much.

Cameron Jace

#3. The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned.

Kate Morton

#4. He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity - the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. They arrested us after breakfast.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

Siegbert Tarrasch

#7. Every book you've ever read is just a different combination of 26 letters.

Unknown

#8. I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

Alan King

#9. Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?

Kristin Cashore

#10. You don't have to know me, to read my drama-story.

Shin Haido