Top 16 Kate Wetherall Quotes
#1. 'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
#2. What was that? Rich combined the pain of a crooked arm with the indignity of a flicked ear. I could only hope the situation didn't escalate to the dreaded purple nurple.
Molly Harper
#3. If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
Charlie Munger
#4. One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
#5. Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.
David Sanborn
#6. Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.
Mortimer Adler
#7. People no longer wanted right or left - they wanted middle-of-the-road.
Anna Funder
#8. Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be ... scarier.
Nalini Singh
#9. My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
Joaquin Phoenix
#10. Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as ... as ... "
"Dead mice?" Reynie suggested.
"Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#13. Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
Tryon Edwards
#14. We take turns being smart for each other; I think it's part of the job description of being a couple.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#15. I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#16. Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.
James Hillman