Mogget's Quotes

#1. Mogget's voice. Sam whirled around. "Mogget? Is that you? Where are you?" "Here, and regretting it as per usual," replied Mogget, and a small white cat sauntered out from behind a fern tree.

Garth Nix

#2. Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots - "

"What?"

"Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes.

Garth Nix

#3. People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

Bob Iger

#4. Are you . . . are you the athask? The great one?" "Maybe," said Mogget. "I can't remember." "Mogget,

Garth Nix

#5. Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.

Garth Nix

#6. As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?"
"Yum," said Mogget.
"Yes, sir!" mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried to smother the burning wreckage of his switchboard with a fire blanket.

Garth Nix

#7. He growled and grimaced as they came to him, and clenched his fists in pain and anger.
"Unusual name," commented Mogget. "More of a bear's name, that growl.

Garth Nix

#8. What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

#9. Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

Garth Nix

#10. You're so scared of things sometimes, and for no reason," Sloane said, her voice quieter. "And sometimes, I wish ... " She didn't finish the sentence, just let it hang in the car between us.
I wished it too - whatever it was that in that moment Sloane wanted me to be, that I was falling short of.

Morgan Matson

#11. Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Tim O'Reilly

#12. [Lunch] was composed of one of the fish she had caught, evidently rescued from Mogget. This had been grilled with ginger, pepper, and some spice she didn't know, set atop a salad of grains and greenleaf, accompanied by a lightly sparkling clear wine she had to admit was delicious and refreshing.

Garth Nix

#13. Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Francis Bacon

#14. I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.

Garth Nix

#15. NEPA's common sense approach to foster discussion and collaboration about major development projects has worked well to protect our national treasures and resources.

Frances Beinecke

#16. I can see time, whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Garth Nix

#17. Time plays tricks between here and home, said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

Garth Nix

#18. Mom's smiles were the most beautiful thing in the world, and they almost always made things better. They almost even made an early bedtime okay, but not quite.

Thea Harrison

#19. What's too late?" asked Mogget. "Hold

Garth Nix

#20. What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget. Though I have had other names.

Garth Nix

#21. A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

Daniel Johns

#22. Why do you take delight in leaping to such a wild conjecture from so fragile a springboard?

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#23. This? It's a feather-coin. I made it.'
'What is it for?'
'It isn't for anything. It's a toy.'
'It's for annoying people,' said Mogget from Sam's pack. 'If you don't put it away, I shall eat it.

Garth Nix

#24. She opened her eyes- closing them was cowardice, and the Carstairs were not cowards.

Cassandra Clare

#25. A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose."
"A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed too forward.

Garth Nix

#26. It's always better to be doing.

Garth Nix

#27. Their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls.

James Joyce

#28. Why, Yrael?" it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. "Why?"
"Life," said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. "Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

Garth Nix

#29. It is interesting to observe what the Cynic teaching became when it was popularized. In the early part of the third century B.C., the cynics were the fashion, especially in Alexandria. They published little sermons pointing out how easy it is to do without material possessions,

Bertrand Russell

#30. What did I know about the fifty-five (give or take) countries of Africa? I carried within me one deep personal thread of one small part of it, and it had changed and colored everything,

Alexandra Fuller