May 2008 Quotes

A person don’t hardly feel right unless he’s looking forward, you ever notice that? - Stephen King (The Stand)

…a completely tame man was no use to himself or anyone else… - Robert Jordan (New Spring)

Teddy and Vern slowly became just two faces in the halls or in three-thirty detention. We nodded and said hi. That was all. It happens. Friends come in and out of your life like bus boys in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? But when I think of that dream, the corpses under the water pulling implacably at my legs, it seems right that it should be that way. Some people drown, that’s all. It’s not fair, but it happens. Some people drown. - Stephen King (The Body)

An ignorant woman who keeps her mouth shut will be thought wise… - Robert Jordan (A Crown of Swords)

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them. - Stephen King (The Dark Tower)

... greed in a good cause is still greed. - Stephen King (Wolves of the Calla)

It's not good for a man to be alone
But a women needs someone that she can count on
- Brooks & Dunn (When She's Gone, She's Gone)

Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women. - Robert Jordan (Winter's Heart)

...in order to understand anything, you must impose an order on it so it becomes meaningful to you and so you can interact effectively with it. - William W. West (On Writing By Writers)

Some women don't ask for land, or gold. Just the man.
And the man who would ask her to accept so little would not be worthy of her.
- Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

…a man just could not do without a woman to take care of him and keep him out of trouble. - Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

Games have a way of turning serious sometimes. - Stephen King (The Stand)

God gives life and then takes it away when He wants. - Stephen King (The Stand)

…I was half-past sober, going on drunk. - Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

There is nothing that is so self-consuming as generosity: the more you practice it, the less you will be able to continue to practice it. You will either become poor and despised or your efforts to avoid poverty will make you rapacious and hated. - Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince)

And when there was no choice, hesitation was ever a fault. - Stephen King (Wizard and Glass)

hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself. - Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

The more who speak of a thing, the more will learn of it who should not. - Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight)

The universe…offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain-although it may think it can-the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite. - Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

There is no word for failure in the bright lexicon youth - Darryl Brock (If I Never Get Back)

I'm never alone
I'm alone all the time
- Bush (Glycerine)

...one human being can never know everything that is in another human being’s heart - Stephen King (Apt Pupil)

Always plan for the worst child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones. - Robert Jordan (The Dragon Reborn)

Women lied to get a man into bed, and they lied worse once they had him there. - Robert Jordan (Winter's Heart)

For some who swear an oath, whatever is not forbidden is permitted, and whatever is not commanded can be ignored. - Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight)