Dormiens Quotes

#1. Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

[never tickle a sleeping dragon]

J.K. Rowling

#2. Arden, Matt discovered, was a force to be reckoned with. She had a flair for fighting with two curved knives, about the length of daggers. She whirled around like a flailing tornado, blocking and striking with fury.
The Fire Stone

Riley Carney

#3. I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.

Neil Peart

#4. No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

Harlan Coben

#5. My background is in improv and writing.

Paul Scheer

#6. Why did I have to be a good boy just because I had a bad-boy brother? I hated the way my mom and dad did family math.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#7. It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Samuel Johnson

#8. I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#9. Call me Ian or bastard or son of a bitch. I answer to them all.

Lexi Blake

#10. That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

Nancy Mairs

#11. Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Mason Cooley

#12. The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Jimmy Buffett

#13. It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

Emma Thompson

#14. He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

Publilius Syrus

#15. Like you, I have often wondered why fears reign at night. After twenty years of such wondering, I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the stars - always there, but obscured by the glare of daylight. "And

Irvin D. Yalom

#16. Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping out of ego. The arising of the new consciousness already has started for many people. They are not yet recognizable as groups, but they are here and there.

Eckhart Tolle