Sophie's World Book Quotes

#1. Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks that most people will in a lifetime.

Veronica Roth

#2. That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.

Austin O'Malley

#3. I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Jostein Gaarder

#4. But it is possible that a completely different author is somewhere writing a book about a UN Major Albert Knag, who is writing a book for his daughter Hilde. This book is about a certain Alberto Knox who suddenly begins to send humble philosophical lectures to Sophie Amundsen, 3 Clover Close.

Jostein Gaarder

#5. Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

Diana Gabaldon

#6. Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left.

Morgan Brittany

#7. Technology is anything invented after you were born.

Alan Kay

#8. Hermione took out a list of subjects and titles she had decided to search while Ron strode off down a row of books and started pulling them off the shelves at random. Harry wandered over to the Restricted Section.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Beatrix Potter

#10. It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

Sophie Kinsella

#11. I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

Zell Miller

#12. Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Anne Sexton

#13. Take a sip from the cup of death ...
And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.

Ol' Dirty Bastard