Lyrical Press Quotes

#1. Going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

Jostein Gaarder

#2. I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

Charles Evers

#3. I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption.

Maeve Alpin

#4. Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.

William Shakespeare

#5. [When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy ... Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Mark Helprin

#6. Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.

Henry Threadgill

#7. Twoflower didn't just look at the world through rose-tinted spectacles, Rincewind knew
he looked at it through a rose-tinted brain, too, and heard it through rose-tinted ears.

Terry Pratchett

#8. What is "should," anyway?

Chrissy Stockton

#9. Hand of iron! Head of iron! Heart of iron!" And he lashed blindly with his sword over the shield wall. "Your death comes, sang the hundred!

Joe Abercrombie

#10. There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

John Currin

#11. We understand so little about life or its sister, death. Look at this animal. Why was it, a moment ago, alive and feeling and thinking and now it is changed and dead? Why?"
"'Cause you shot it," Jim said.

R.S. Belcher

#12. If someone means well, but does ill, the ill is still done - and the consequences still exist. Besides, if intent forgives wrong, then any wrongdoer can claim good intent.

Elizabeth Moon

#13. this whale carries the everlasting mail!

Herman Melville

#14. Maybe there isn't such a thing as fate. Maybe it's just the opportunities we're given, and what we do with them. I'm beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don't just happen. We have to make them ourselves.

Marissa Meyer

#15. Strange is it that our bloods,
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty.

William Shakespeare

#16. Yes, we will all have cracks -
but that is how we break
without falling apart.

Timothy Joshua