Dub Fx Quotes

#1. First off, what the hell kind of name is that?
Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance!
What the actual fuck?

Joanne McClean

#2. [My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

Sarah Winman

#3. Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

Lewis Carroll

#4. Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#5. There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#6. itself, had emerged from that shadow.

Alice McDermott

#7. I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

John Green

#8. Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldiers' dreams

Matsuo Basho

#9. My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets whom the tyranny of rhyme forces into the discovery of their finest lines.

Marcel Proust

#10. When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis De Sales

#11. Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.

Tim Field

#12. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

W. H. Murray

#13. He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn't work anymore. In fact, they'd never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world's more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

Ann Brashares

#14. The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#15. I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

Steven Klein