Dulcie's Quotes

#1. I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine.

Daniel H. Wilson

#2. First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius.
"Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Alethea Kontis

#3. It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.

Hilary Mantel

#4. So how do you know when the boy's perfect for you?' Dulcie asked
Betty gave her a tender look. 'You'll just know. That sounds vague, I know, but it's true.

Lesley Pearse

#5. Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can

Dominic Savio

#6. Any reality is an opinion-we make up our own reality

Timothy Leary

#7. Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

Gary Zukav

#8. Try to squeeze a watermelon into a small tumbler sometime when your reflexes are not so good. It is next to impossible.

Thomas Pynchon

#9. But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.

Frank Herbert

#10. She's against it on principle, and life isn't run on principles but by adjustments

Margaret Atwood

#11. For the robust, an error is information.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Of course you aren't scared of me. I'm not the wolf. You are.

Stylo Fantome

#13. I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work ... I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.

Dave Barry

#14. To make an ox or water buffalo work so hard, it needs to be blinded and uninformed. That's what the government is doing to the masses now.

Lisa See

#15. Dulcie said there were no cats in the Bible, but Kit wasn't sure she believed that. Why would there be horses and cows and dogs, wild pigs and weasels, but no cats? Why, when everyone knew that a little cat would have to be God's favorite?

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#16. I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone ... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.

Louis Nowra

#17. What pleasure is there in life without beauty?" Dulcie slid a silken blue fold down so her right hip bone showed, and nodded with approval.
"Beauty won't fill your belly or keep you warm."
Dulcie chuckled. "You might be surprised.

Susan Scott

#18. Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there ...

Barbara Pym

#19. Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

Les Baxter

#20. I want to know," he breathed, his tongue moving between her breasts.
"When do we get to be bad again?" She smiled big.
"Baby, I thought you'd never ask.

Stylo Fantome

#21. I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want to hear.

Lesley Pearse

#22. As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen.

Barbara Pym

#23. A single act of kindness can change a life.

Nalini Singh

#24. Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

Robert Scheer