Unpleasantly Unexpected Quotes

#1. Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Eoin Colfer

#2. I had a dream about you last night... if atomic clocks are synced up to a satellite to keep their time accurate, where does the satellite get its time? Is there a chain of atomic clocks setting time for other atomic clocks?

Marshall Ramsay

#3. The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Jose Saramago

#4. I've learned to always avoid saying "always".

Martin Fowler

#5. Where are my guards? (Wulf)
Oh, one is right here, but he's not feeling very talkative. Death has a way of making even the chattiest of people rather quite. As for the other ... he's ... oh, wait, dead now. (Stryker)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. My beloved child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.

Kripalvananda

#7. And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ... alive.

Mary Balogh

#8. Does Patch have a restraining order against him?' he read. 'Is Patch a felon?'
'Give-me-that!' I hissed furiously.
Patch gave a soft laugh, and I knew he'd seen the next question. 'Does Patch have a girlfriend?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#9. I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.

Steve Martin

#10. Birds of prey and fierce piranha enter not into Nirvana, where are neither thorns nor nettles, only soft and fragrant petals.

John Biccard

#11. You mean like, if a hybrid drinks from a shifter in the middle of the woods, did it really happen?"
He moved closer until he was peering down at her. "What happens in the woods, stays in the woods.

Marie Johnston

#12. You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.

John Corbett

#13. I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Presence, power and warmth.

Olivia Fox Cabane

#15. Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.

Donny Most