Unhelpfully Quotes

#1. Snow, the boy is called," Pycelle said unhelpfully. "I glimpsed him once at Winterfell," the queen said, "though the Starks did their best to hide him. He looks very like his father." Her husband's by-blows had his look as well, though at least Robert had the grace to keep them out of sight.

George R R Martin

#2. When asked how he accomplished his astonishing discoveries, Newton replied unhelpfully, By thinking upon them.

Carl Sagan

#3. Pursing my lips, I strive to appear unaffected by his touch. He is so artful at diverting me from anything painful, or anything he doesn't want to address. And you let him, my subconscious pipes up unhelpfully, gazing over her copy of Jane Eyre.

E.L. James

#4. I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#5. I felt vibration as my shield began to plow through Coral's upper atmosphere; Asshole rather unhelpfully chimed in that we had begun to experience turbulence.

John Scalzi

#6. You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Karen Bass

#7. Aerys Targaryen did as he liked. Has your mother ever told you what happened to him?

George R R Martin

#8. What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

#9. Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#10. He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake.

Monica Ali

#11. Welcome to Telepathics Anonymous. Don't bother introducing yourself.

Bauvard

#12. I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

Bryan Stevenson

#13. I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

Connie Stevens

#14. To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received one, regardless of whether their papers were in order.

Lawrence Hill

#15. The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

Abraham Verghese