"In the land of Ingary where such things……" — Diana Wynne Jones
"In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes."
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Diana Wynne Jones
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143 Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because…
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Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you…
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and…
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and…
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It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom…
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up…
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I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean,…
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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your…
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A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
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More Boots Quotes
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Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.
— Jensen Ackles
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
— Oksana Baiul
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
— Samuel Beckett
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
— Mayim Bialik
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter.…
— William S. Burroughs
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We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where…
— Nick Cannon
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my…
— Brian Clough
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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
— Paulo Coelho
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