Dabei Quotes

#1. I have been mostly dull lately. Like a butter knife. And hoping to find, when called upon, something more in my arsenal than a butter knife. Unless my opponent is actually butter. Then that would be fine. Room temperature butter.

Bill Callahan

#2. I want a good love story and a happy ending. Period. I don't want to deal with real life shit in a book. I'm reading to escape.

R.L. Griffin

#3. Man usually believes, if only words he hears,
That also with them goes material for thinking.
[Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort,
Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.

Heather Chapple

#5. The next morning, boom! She found herself waking in bed next to the handsome, rogue-supporting character of her favourite novel. Out of the blue, Mary Sue was inside the #1 bestseller, epic fantasy novel ever written.

Mads Sukalikar

#6. Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

Robin Sloan

#7. Told you, something's good, it's worth fightin' for but not if you're the only one fightin'.
Then he opened the door, slamming it behind him and stalked out.

Kristen Ashley

#8. The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world ... What it hasn't got is not worth having ...

Kenneth Grahame

#9. Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags.

Bill Hicks

#10. Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

Theresa May

#12. You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

Haruki Murakami

#13. You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

Roy DeCarava

#14. It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.

Loren Eiseley

#15. Your grasp of the language is startling," Wax said, "considering how you so frequently brutalize it." "Ain't nobody what knows the cow better than the butcher, Wax.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. It was as if he were so isolated that any close contact at all became a friendship in his mind.

Robin Hobb