Testily Quotes

#1. What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Chronicler snapped. "You're just spouting nonsense now."
"I'm spouting too much sense for you to understand," Bast said testily.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. What you have to remember," said Mr. Ibis, testily, "is that life and death are different sides of the same coin. Like the heads and tails of a quarter." "And if I had a double-headed quarter?" "You don't. They only belong to fools, and gods.

Neil Gaiman

#3. It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

Terry Pratchett

#4. We had a humiliating and lengthy wait at a DONT WALK sign with not a car in sight for miles. Dad was a press about jaywalking. Or maybe he just like to stare down what he'd testily called the "grammatical error sanctioned by the state." There is, of course, no apostrophe in the DONT WALK sign.

Deb Caletti

#5. Did you mark that?"
"Most of it."
"Then I have your obedience."
"I didn't exactly plan to go anywhere this morning, " she told him testily. "But, I wasn't lost. I was just hunting. And I wasn't in trouble."
"Human, you are not yet out of trouble.

R. Lee Smith

#6. What?" he demanded testily.
Trammell raised his eyebrows. "I didn't say anything."
"You're thinking something, though. You've got that shit-eating smirk on your face."
"Why would anyone smirk while they eat shit?" Trammell asked rhetorically.

Linda Howard

#7. What's going to happen?" asked Rhea. "I was a witch, not a fortune teller," said Maria testily. "No one knows what's going to happen.

T. Kingfisher

#8. I thought: 'You in there, Horus?'
'What?' he said testily.
'Bird form, please.'
'Oh, I see. You don't trust me. But now you need my help.'
'Man, come on. Just do the falcon thing.'
'Would you settle for an emu?

Rick Riordan

#9. And the Slytherins don't need a spy, Oliver," said George. "What makes you say that?" said Wood testily. "Because they're here in person," said George, pointing.

J.K. Rowling

#10. What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking."
"Uncle Tom?"
"I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. But if you must know, your moon here is rather more powerful than the ones around my own world."
"The moon?" said Twoflower. "I don't under-"
"If I've got to spell it out," said the troll, testily, "I'm suffering from chronic tides.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

Ted Koppel

#13. Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

Ramana Maharshi

#14. We'll meet again, but you're a lifetime away, and I need you now.

Karen Quan

#15. You can't fall out of the basement.

William Wright

#16. I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Cormac McCarthy

#17. Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.

Friedrich Kellner

#18. It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and ... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot of time. Me and Kenny Chesney had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together. It's been a lot of great advice through the years.

Luke Bryan

#19. These aren't cupcake sprinkles.

Aprilynne Pike

#20. It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

Anthony Foxx