Corrected Quotes
207 quotes by 184 authors
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Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected.…
— Joss Whedon
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Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat…
— Nicole Krauss
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He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
— Virginia Woolf
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I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. "I don’t play…
— Rick Riordan
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And you work for that demon, right? The one who looks like Matthew Broderick?†“John Cusack,†I corrected. “He looks like John Cusack.†“Whatever.
— Richelle Mead
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I’m just trying to imagine you in flannel pink sock monkey pajamas. I’m sure you look stunning in pink. (Damien) Actually, with his skin tone…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
— Brandon Mull
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You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian…
— Joseph Heller
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Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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We’re on the moon,†Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,†Bast corrected.
— Rick Riordan
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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Iʹve seen you too. Ozera. Crispin, right?ʺ ʺChristian,ʺ corrected Lissa. ʺRight.ʺ .... ʺSo what brings you and Christopher here?ʺ asked Blake. He finished a glass…
— Richelle Mead
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That's smart. Once Sonya's able to talk, we'll need to move." He smiled. "Sydney's turning into a battle mastermind." "Hey, she's not in charge here,"…
— Richelle Mead
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The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil…
— Jeff Cooper
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Actually Gabriel’s an archangel,†I corrected. “But otherwise, yes.†“Well, that explains why he’s so hard to impress,†said Xavier flippantly
— Alexandra Adornetto
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If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories." Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.
— Kristin Cashore
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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often…
— Robin Hobb
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