Quotes by American Authors - Page 251

It was the day he learned that smart, witty girls were brighter than sunlight.
Olivia Fuller
Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.
Scott Lynch
The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.
Gail Carriger
Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.
Flannery O'Connor
He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him to be.
Lauren Weisberger
Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.
James Dashner
What are you - Secret Service?''If I were, I wouldn't admit it.''And you're not admitting it, I notice.
Robert Goddard
Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male- I hesitate to say 'man'- or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations or our monthlies?
Tamora Pierce
My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend torepeat them.
Lisa Kleypas
He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.
James Dashner
In all small things be honest and the big ones will take care of themselves.
Rolf Margenau
Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love," the queen said with a little smirk, "and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.
David Eddings
Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it?
Jacqueline Winspear
Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!
T.T. Faulkner
There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastating powers of deduction, I wished there had been two of me so I could have patted myself on the back. I know it sounds arrogant, but how often does one achieve a mental triumph of that magnitude? After listening to her speak just two words, I had nailed the whole bloody thing. If Watson had been there, he would have been shaking his head and muttering under his breath.
Paul Auster
Try - Takes the infinitive: "try to mend it," not "try and mend it." Students of the language will argue that 'try and' has won through and become idiom. Indeed it has, and it is relaxed and acceptable. But 'try to' is precise, and when you are writing formal prose, try and write 'try to.
William Strunk Jr.
At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.
Norman Spinrad
Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.
Norman Spinrad
She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.
Julie Anne Long
Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.
Michael Swanwick
The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...
Michael Swanwick
He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.
Catherynne M. Valente
I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.
Philip K Dick
You're impossible," she told him. "Of course I am," he answered. "It's part of my charm.
David Eddings
The queen sighed. "What am I going to do with all of you now!" "You're going to let us continue our journey," Belgarath replied calmly. "We'll argue about it, of course, but in the end that's the way it'll turn out."She stared at him. "You did ask, after all. I'm sure you feel better now that you know.
David Eddings
Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.
Patrick Rothfuss
Your--ah--intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer have to worry about Salmissra's whims and peculiar appetites. We rule by committee, and we hardly ever find it necessary to poison each other anymore. No one's tried to poison me for months.
David Eddings
Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.
Kay Honeyman
Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.
Philip José Farmer
My libido was like a Golden Retriever puppy, ready to jump all over him and lick his face.Down, girl.
Sarina Bowen
Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.
Philip José Farmer
Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it.
Brandon Sanderson
You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?""I suppose.""AR-15?""Ugh. AR-15? I'd rather not have my gun break down on me every second week." Besides, every wannabe and their dog had an M16 or M4 variant these days."G7.""Not accurate enough.""FAL?""A 7.62? Maybe," I said. "Though I hate the triggers.""As picky as a woman with her shoes," Abraham grumbled."Hey," I said. "That's insulting." I knew plenty of women who were pickier with their guns than they were with their shoes.
Brandon Sanderson
Now it's my turn to give you advice." The tightened his grip, eliminating any doubt about whether he was as ready for this as she was. "Any time you're talking about having hot, dirty sex that makes you come so hard your whole world turns neon, the last thing you want to bring into the conversation is the word 'little'".
Avery Flynn
Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.
Lynn Messina
I'll be sure not to let anyone but you carry me in her arms." He turns and leaves the kitchen before I can figure out what to make of his comment. A sense of humor is one more thing I don't think angels should have. The fact that his sense of humor is corny makes it even more wrong.
Susan Ee
He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.
James Jones
I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.
Brian Celio
My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.
Steve Kluger
But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.
Lynn Messina
It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)
Tim Dorsey
Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.
Elizabeth Eulberg
I wasn't used to guys making me blush, and I wasn't sure why he even was making me blush.
Holly Hood
Master Griffin, I would marry my own mother for the excuse to stab my eyes out with her brooches than to see anything under your kilt," the man's voice said with an elegant aplomb. "Where would you like your guest's things, sir?
Tiffany Reisz
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
Jandy Nelson
I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.
George W. Bush
What the hell makes you smart?" I asked."I wouldn't go for coffee with you.""Listen - I wouldn't ask you.""That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid.
Erich Segal
A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
Jim Butcher
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
George R.R. Martin
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Rex Beach
Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.
Christopher Hitchens
Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.
Demetri Martin
I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?"I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?"He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?
Janette Rallison
We both smile at the classic misunderstanding. It’s all so cliché-ridden, it’s embarrassing. I wish our story could have some more original twists and turns. Maybe one of us will turn into a vampire or something.
Stacy Kramer
I am a master of foolhardy plans.
Megan Whalen Turner
Wit defies deathbut death defines wit
David Giannini
You want me to invite him to dinner.” “I want you to invite him to dinner,” she agreed. “You know,” he said, “most gay men don’t have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives.” “That’s probably true,” she said. “You’re one of the lucky ones.
Matthew Haldeman-Time
Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.
Junot Díaz
Jordan, there isn't a straight woman or gay man alive who wouldn't drop everything to have dinner with you. I've been in this business for all of my life, and I know the difference between people who pretend to like you to get ahead, and people who are actually interested in getting to know you. Patrick wants to get to know you. Preferably naked, but that’s up to you.” “I can’t wait until you’re old enough to be senile and start saying these things in public.” “I’m very lucky to have such a loving son.
Matthew Haldeman-Time