Top 43 Shandy Quotes
#2. Tristram Shandy may perhaps go on a little longer, but we will not follow him. With all his drollery there is a sameness of extravagance which tires us. We have just a succession of Surprise, surprise, surprise.
David Hume
#3. Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
Samuel Johnson
#4. Ahh, I know." Dr. Shandy looked relieved. "Some of this wine will be just the right thing. Have some."
"Will it help?" Jam asked.
"Well, no, it never actually helps. But it's a really nice vintage.
Kaza Kingsley
#5. Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.
Roger Ebert
#6. For three days, Shandy Gamble had been lying on his back in the Perigord House awaiting the stranger in the black mustache. Nichols, his name was, and if they were ever going to start cattle buying they had better be moving. The season was already late.
Louis L'Amour
#7. I used to spend countless days in my teenage years keeping scorecards, playing cricket and just enjoying myself with friends and having the occasional shandy in the bar.
Steffan Rhodri
#8. There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?
C.S. Lewis
#9. Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
Aldo Leopold
#10. I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.
Shandy L. Kurth
#12. For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You've done the time but wonder if it's going to satisfy the judge.
Shandy L. Kurth
#13. Ending a series is a difficult one ... where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that.
Shandy L. Kurth
#14. To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.
Robert Silverberg
#15. I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.
Shandy L. Kurth
#17. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our constitution works.
Gerald R. Ford
#18. You're a good dancer," she says quietly.
"Because I haven't fallen down yet?"
"Because right now I don't want to be anywhere else.
Shandy Lawson
#19. People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's
mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
Don DeLillo
#20. There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.
Fritz Leiber
#21. I need you to do something. It's dangerous."
"Yeah, because I am feeling really safe behind my tiny tree.
Shandy L. Kurth
#22. Oh, you know Andy. He wouldn't feel sorry for himself if he got his hand cut off. He told me it could have been worse. Andy's favorite line: it can always get worse.
Shandy L. Kurth
#23. What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!
Shandy L. Kurth
#24. Ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.
Shandy L. Kurth
#25. The neighborhood is pretty rough." I rubbed the hair on the back of my neck feeling a little ashamed about that. We tried to keep it as clean as we could but we weren't saints.
"I'm starting to gather that. Thanks, Clay. Night."
"Night."
"You got it bad man.
Shandy L. Kurth
#26. Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
Shandy L. Kurth
#27. The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind ... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
Laura Riding
#28. The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.
Shandy L. Kurth
#29. I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.
Shandy L. Kurth
#30. People change. Memories don't.
Drake
#31. Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story ...
Laurence Sterne
#32. When I came to America I thought, 'Wouldn't it be awesome to get into one movie?' And then I get cast in 'Bridesmaids' as my first job here and it's such a huge movie.
Rebel Wilson
#33. Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.
Lasse Viren
#34. You are never the same person stepping out of a book, that you were when you first stepped in.
Shandy L. Kurth
#35. It's about quality, not quantity. It's about the memories, the bond, the love. It's about the heart.
Shandy L. Kurth
#36. For right now he was wanted and he was good. And he so rarely experienced either that it was one of the most special moments of his life.
Laura Kaye
#37. God brought us to the water," [Emery] breathed as she struggled.
"No, I took us to the water.
Shandy L. Kurth
#38. Holiness and humanness are correlative terms and mutual implicates (as the logicians would put it). To the
J.I. Packer
#39. You gonna make it? Fallon asked Brody, eyeing him. He looked two steps from the grave. Well, if I don't, you guys feel free to eat me. A little meat would do you good. These damn veggies ain't doing shit.
Shandy L. Kurth
#40. I'm gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way.
Suge Knight
#41. If I had a clear vision, none of my books would be what they are. I've got to let the characters show me the way.
Shandy L. Kurth
#42. Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#43. Let the wicked be put to shame and lie silent in the grave."
"What the hell did she just say?"
"I think she just threatened us with the wrath of God.
Shandy L. Kurth
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