Kiswell Quotes

#1. A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.

Amy Summers

#2. It's not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.

Susan Juby

#3. I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk

Sylvia Plath

#4. Wise are those who have seen life from both sides of the fence.

A.J. Garces

#5. I'm looking at myself," he said, ecstatically, "except it's you.

Philip Roth

#6. I also stopped wearing jewelry because I asked myself, What are these baubles which tempt me? Why should I lose my character for a few metal trinkets?

Malala Yousafzai

#7. The problem with prime beef is that there are so many people out there selling offal. So you don't know when you're going eat a shitty gangster movie. Because everybody knows there's good stuff to be involved in.

Tom Hardy

#8. Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.

Michael R. French

#9. Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.

Daniel Kahneman

#10. For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Dante Alighieri

#11. What are you suggesting I do Ralph?'
'I'm suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.'
"Sometimes that's the only place telling the truth get you, too.

M.L. Stedman

#12. That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.

Philip Pullman

#14. There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

George R R Martin