Local Quotes

1172 Local quotes by 970 unique authors

You use the word "Infinity" very glibly.... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that… — Mike Carey
...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local… — Alice Hoffman
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access… — Thomas Ligotti
I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The… — George Saunders
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has… — C.S. Lewis
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun… — Andrea Camilleri
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard… — Anthony Bourdain
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. — Ken Bruen
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. — David Levithan
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary… — Margaret Atwood
I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub… — Alice Sebold
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he… — Douglas Adams
Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been… — George Carlin
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try… — Sri Aurobindo
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in… — Wendell Berry
What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
After a universal silence, Leo was the first to speak. “Did anyone else notice—” “Yes,” Catherine said. “What do you make of it?” “I haven’t… — Lisa Kleypas
What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus.… — Cassandra Clare
Nick was dressed in jeans, a dark green sweater, and bomber jacket–the perfect image of a rich college student. Talon looked like a biker who… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there… — M. Scott Peck
Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was… — Douglas Adams
The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American… — Brennan Manning
Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to… — Alexandra Ivy
Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long.… — Jeremy Clarkson

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