Total Quotes
1848 quotes by 1360 authors
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I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total…
— Rick Riordan
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You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?'…
— Tim O'Brien
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Awwww, lame, we're not going to disneyworld. (said by the amazing talking dog, Total)
— James Patterson
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Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I'm sorry," she says. I wheel around. "You know, you're a total know-it-all. And it's incredibly rude sometimes; I mean, you're not perfect either, and…
— John Green
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I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to…
— Sarah Dessen
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He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps…
— Jandy Nelson
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A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible…
— Elise Broach
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I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've…
— Ayi Kwei Armah
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Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad.†“Me, too,†said Gazzy. “I…
— James Patterson
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Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within…
— Daniel Quinn
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I couldn’t leave Total behind.†“Total?†Iggy asked. “That’s what his card said,†Angel explained. “Totally a mutant dog who will probably turn on us…
— James Patterson
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You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.
— Alan Moore
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The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only…
— Adolfo Bioy Casares
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you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
— John Kennedy Toole
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It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
— Ron Paul
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Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible…
— Melina Marchetta
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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could…
— Charles Yu
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