Eager Quotes

455 Eager quotes by 386 unique authors

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… — Rick Moody
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant. — Henry James
Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. "Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to… — Kurt Vonnegut
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS… — Yann Martel
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to… — Madeleine L'Engle
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a… — Charlotte Bronte
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember… — Jessica Valenti
Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was… — Joseph Heller
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their… — Iain Banks
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are… — Thomas Moore
Don't be too hasty," she warned. "Conserve your strength. If you're too eager to fight the undead, you may find yourselves joining them. Then you'd… — Richelle Mead
So eager for eternal damnation. — Stephenie Meyer
But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was… — Edward Eager
Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it,… — Monique Truong
Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on… — Garth Nix
So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but Iâ€™d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass,… — Katherine Mansfield
O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again… — Dante Alighieri

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