Numbered Quotes
92 quotes by 82 authors
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If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and…
— Stephen King
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The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to…
— Daniel Handler
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Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something†cannot be seen or heard or numbered…
— Robert Fulghum
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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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I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always…
— Ray Bradbury
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He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book,…
— Cassandra Clare
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We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
— Raymond Carver
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If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
— Stephen King
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...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that…
— Joanne Greenberg
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When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death…
— Paulo Coelho
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He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished…
— Brian Selznick
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.
— John Green
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It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love,…
— John Green
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Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign…
— Samuel Johnson
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Time is numbered only to man.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of…
— Jason Alexander
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