Lists Quotes
1031 quotes by 878 authors
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Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of…
— William Goldman
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I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap.…
— Cory Doctorow
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It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with…
— Mary Roach
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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
— Umberto Eco
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I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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You know what this is?" Lula said. "This here's plane rage." Plane rage isn't allowed. It got taken off the allowed activities list along with…
— Janet Evanovich
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Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of…
— Clive Barker
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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't…
— Dave Barry
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And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that…
— Kristin Hannah
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He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest…
— E L Konigsburg
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I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glared at me with distaste.…
— Rick Riordan
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Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are…
— Jane Yolen
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That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone…
— Anne Bishop
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A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the…
— Rick Riordan
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