Isn Quotes
897 quotes by 623 authors
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Personally, I believe “Young Adult†to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite…
— Shannon Hale
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It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small worldâ€. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world,…
— Clive Barker
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You and me?†I let out a stunned bark of laughter. “There is no you and me.†“That’s what you think,†Chaz says, tugging on…
— Meg Cabot
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its…
— Elie Wiesel
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I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.
— Deb Caletti
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I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
— Randy Pausch
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Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones.…
— Jane Green
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Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice�
— George Carlin
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Safe?†said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s…
— C.S. Lewis
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In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on…
— Greg Mortenson
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If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
— George Carlin
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades…
— Richard Dawkins
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Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
— George Carlin
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The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after…
— Boris Pasternak
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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for…
— Gregory Maguire
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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our…
— Eudora Welty
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Why isn’t the word “phonetically†spelled with an “f�
— Steven Wright
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Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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