Top 35 Epigram Books Quotes
#1. I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.
You Jin
#2. I'm kinda wishy-washy about questions. If you ask me again tomorrow, I'm likely to give you completely different answers.
Jabari Asim
#3. Look, Cha Cha!" says Bo Bo.
"We're here at our new home!"
Cha Cha shrugs her shoulders as she takes her first look at the Mandai Zoo.
Jason Erik Lundberg
#4. Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing.
Evan Adam Ang
#5. White froth bubbles from the mouth of Chow Sze Teck. The airconditioner is still running and the room is dark. Slumped over the mahogany desk in his study, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Housing is, as always, immaculately dressed.
Wong Souk Yee
#6. I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.
Robert Wagner
#7. In order to create a new world, we must first destroy the old one.
Andrew Cormier
#8. As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.
Ken Liu
#9. There were three things Gimme Lao did not know about himself.
Sebastian Sim
#10. I'd thought there'd be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway - silently, suddenly.
You Jin
#11. So Artichoke was a restaurant borne out of impulse and recklessness. Four years on, it's also a testament to how an enterprise started on such a fucked up approach can actually succeed.
Bjorn Shen
#12. Because the erotic frisson is such that the kiss that you only imagine giving,can be as powerful and as enchanting as hours of actual lovemaking. As Marcel Proust said, it's our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.
Esther Perel
#13. Why do men always have such high opinions of their cock?
Amy Andrews
#14. Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.
Kathy Mattea
#15. Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.
Stanley Fish
#16. Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
Vivien Leigh
#17. But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen's clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as our
game plan ever was - to make food that tasted good.
Bjorn Shen
#18. She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn't heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.
Jeremy Tiang
#19. It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
Harriet Martineau
#20. One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.
Ng Yi-Sheng
#22. Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.
Chris Evans
#23. I was in this on my own - it was make it or break it.
Bjorn Shen
#24. But we will not bury our mother. We have no interest in putting her bones in soft ground, no desire for memorials and platitudes, no feelings attached to the organic detritus of her terminated existence.
JY Yang
#26. In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
Raphael Millet
#27. Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes
Thien
#28. I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I feel entranced, ecstatic and besotted by the fragrance of the flowers and this is because of my thoughts.
Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
#29. Any moment now, I thought, he was going to wake up. Any moment.
O Thiam Chin
#30. Writing is an organized way of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write them.
Don DeLillo
#31. Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.
Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.
And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.
You Jin
#32. Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.
Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
#33. 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
Adam Davidson
#34. Many years later, Sophia will think of this night, and how close she was to tears. She will wonder how she could have allowed herself to arrive there, but also feel a twinge of loss for the girl still capable of losing control.
Jeremy Tiang
#35. The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a "soundless music". It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.
You Jin
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