c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I am intelligent I am attractiveI am powerfulI am proactiveI am healthI am strengthI am stealthI am surrounded by loveI am a beacon of hopeI-- HORKFLAKGLORKSPUKE....That was a hairballAnd I am a catAnd what just happenedI am fine with that
— Francesco Marciuliano
He leaned against her, pressing his shoulder into hers. "Don't be mad at me," he said, sighing. "It makes me crazy.""I'm never mad at you," she said."Right.""I'm not.""You must just be mad near me a lot.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Try to think like a human,’ said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.‘Why should I restrict myself so severely?
— Neal Asher, Brass Man
Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.
— Barry Lyga, Game
I was hoping that the first time you expressed affection for me, it would not be in a room full of strangers. And that you would not have just said it to a sniveling creature like that Raymond!” “I expressed affection for Ray?” “Yes!” “Man, I really must be drunk.” Louis-Cesare just looked at me. I blinked politely back, until I realized that he expected a response.
— Karen Chance, In Vino Veritas
Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted—a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.
— Neal Asher, Polity Agent
Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called ‘pigheadedness’.
— Neal Asher, Polity Agent
It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did.
— Neal Asher, Polity Agent
It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.
— Neal Asher, Brass Man
Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time.
— Julia Quinn, The Duke and I
It never ceases to amaze me how many people think I kill for fun.”“Don’t y
— Karen Chance, Death's Mistress
I'm just going ahead and say what everyone else here is thinking.This has got to be the weirdest fucking wedding that has ever happened.
— Jessica Gadziala, Cash
All the latchkey children cursed and smashed bottles, teased about underwear, and puffed on those unfiltered cigarettes that only the cowboys could roll.
— Bremer Acosta, Blood of Other Worlds
April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.
— Criss Jami
Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were connected back to front by a loop made of two seat belts buckled to each other. That was the only time I ever saw a Russian use a seat belt for any purpose at all.
— Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
That wasn’t so bad,” I decided, after downing the shot. Maybe I was getting my rhythm. “Because you threw it over your shoulder,” Scarface told me, looking smug. “Did not.” I looked behind me, only to see an outraged vamp with fey wine dripping down his face. “Oops.” “It was for luck,” Ray said defensively, wrapping both my hands around a glass. “Drink!” I drank.
— Karen Chance, In Vino Veritas
Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.
— Joyce Rachelle
No matter where he went in the City, there was an odoriferous mix of food and vehicles, like the alchemic concoctions of some mad gourmet mechanic: Kung Pao Saab Turbo, Buick Skylark Carbonara, Sweet-and-Sour Metro Bus, Honda Bolognese with Burning Clutch Sauce.
— Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
— Pythagoras
Mom,” I said as calmly as I could manage. “Listen to me very carefully, okay? And don’t freak.”“Dez, do not start a conversation like that. It doesn’t instill me with any amount of confidence—especially when it comes from you.
— Jus Accardo, Tremble
She let out a strangled laugh. “Yeah, that’s how it works. I just woke up one morning and was like, ‘gee, I want to screw Kyler.’ Seriously, you have no clue.
— Jennifer Armentrout, Frigid
Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.
— Stephen King, The Stand
Isn't it funny that they say most girls have daddy issues, when really, every dude does?
— Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
And why was I sitting on the curb? I honestly didn’t know, but it was better than being inside my apartment, all alone. And yeah, I was alone out here, but it didn’t feel that way. I was pretty sure there was a squirrel over by the tree, so that counted for something, right?
— Jennifer Armentrout, Wait for You
I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots. 
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pirates of Venus
Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.
— A.E.  Kirk, Midnight Poison
I want gifts and Christmas music. I don’t care how many Draziri are out there. They won’t take Christmas from me.”“Yes, but we don’t have a suitable male,” Orro said. “And only one dog.”I looked at him.“What is this Christmas?” Wing asked.Orro turned from the stove. “It’s the rite of passage during which the young males of the human species learn to display aggression and use weapons.”Sean stopped what he was doing and looked at Orro.“The young men go out in small packs,” Orro continued. “They brave the cold and come into conflict with other packs and they have to prove their dominance through physical combat. Their fathers teach them lessons in the proper use of swear words, and the young men have to undergo tests of endurance, like holding soap in their mouths and licking cold metal objects.”Sean made a strangled noise.“At the end of their trials, they go to see a wise elder in a red suit to prove their worth. If they are judged worthy, the family erects a ceremonial tree and presents them with gifts of weapons.”Sean was clearly struggling, because his head was shaking.“Also,” Orro added, “a sacrificial poultry is prepared and then given to the wild animals, probably to appease the nature spirits.”Sean roared with laughter.
— Ilona Andrews, One Fell Sweep
It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know—it’s a dream come true!
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
As we sat there, the door opened, just barely, and a hand slid inside and dropped a set of keys on a side table."Thanks, Garrett!" I called out.He gave me a thumbs-up and closed the door."How do you suppose he knew we were performing sexual favors on each other?" I asked, snuggling against my man again."Possibly because you screamed my name about seven times.
— Darynda Jones, Eleventh Grave in Moonlight
Once upon a time, Jack wouldn't have been caught dead in a princess rescue.
— James Riley, Half Upon a Time
After an hour the score was: Quancita—34 Radiz—51 Sally—froglegs Perla—9 a
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.
— Amy Tan, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
I meditate; therefore, you live.
— Neo Shamon
I’m meeting the attic before I meet the girl.
— Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Two
What a nickname. Teenagers can be so cruel. I’m embarrassed to be one of them.
— Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Two
Are you okay?” “Yeah.” “Good,” she said, “because if you fall off a skyscraper, I’ll be so mad at you.
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
Are you . . . lost?” “Not really,” she told him. “We just don’t know where we’re going.
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
What are you doing?” I asked Loretta. “Stabbing a cushion,” she told me.
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
It's time to laugh at your nightmares and have nightmares of your laughter.
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
A survey was done on people who LIE, but the results were unreLIEable
— Joseph Julius Bonkowski Jr., Quote Me the Book of All New Quotes
Keep moving!” “Bea’s arguing with the floor.
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
We’re alive!” Swedish told her. “I did not see that coming.
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
Google and ye shall find.
— Neo Shamon
Did Cap’n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny.” “Yeah,” I said, “that’s exactly how I’d describe him.
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
You know what to do?” “Wander around,” I said. “Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
Did you just call me ‘sweetie’?” I asked. She shoved my shoulder. “No.
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
Well, the bad news,” Swedish said from the wheel, “is that Chess still thinks he’s funny.” “What’s the good news?” Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. “That Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
Now you’re listening to Swedish ?” I asked her. “He thinks I’m the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
If Chess is the switch,” Loretta said, “how does he turn the Fog off?” Bea bit her lower lip. “I don’t know—ask Chess.” “How would I know?” I said. “You try being a switch.
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
Loretta started belting out a song: “Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
I don’t give sick days if you’re playing in the snow.” He’s being funny, or trying to be funny. I can never tell which.
— Zoe Cruz, Beastia
...Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...
— Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
Taken from the dedication in my debut novel Exactly 23 days. To honour all women on International Women's day. For women everywhere: When you know you are finally mended, spread the word, hold out your hand, share some love from your heart and some laughter from your soul and be there for a new member of the sisterhood who needs your help. Let's all help our sisters worldwide to stand tall and know, they can and they will recover, survive and thrive, to live the life they deserve. To all the sisters who reached out and held my hand in whatever way you could, who cried my tears with me, and laughter my laughter too, I thank every one of you. I survived.
— Jayne Higgins, Exactly 23 Days
Why did Nicky call me the Baby Killer?" Kiara sniffled. "Because she is a bitch," Leontes said. Jaeger gave him a chastising look. "She's dead." "Dying did not make her any less of a bitch," Leontes replied.
— A.E.  Kirk, Midnight Poison
The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists.”“That could have happened to anyone!
— Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring
You see that girl, she looks so happy right? But inside she's dying. She's hurt and tired. Tired of all the drama, tired of not being good enough, tired of life. But she doesn't want to look dramatic, weak or attention seeking so she keeps it all inside. Act's like everything's perfect but she cries at night, boy does she cry at night, so that everybody thinks she is the happiest person they know, that she has no problems and her life is perfect. Little do they know.
— Jayne Higgins, Exactly 23 Days
I’ve got money!” Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the notion that there was some way out of this. “I mean, I don’t know what use money is to the Grim Reaper, but I’ve got a ton of cash! It’s in a hat box under my bed! I’ve got a bright red Lexus in the garage, I’ve got my engagement ring upstairs, it’s real gold… there must be something we can trade off with…”“You can’t bribe me away, I’m afraid,” said Mr. Azrael. “Money means nothing where I come from.
— Rebecca McNutt, Perfect Little Angel: A Short Story
You’re not worried about being compromised, are you?” he asked. “Because I’ve already done that.
— Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring
Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
When people ask me what L.A. was like in the sixties, I tell them there wasn't as much terrible stucco as there is today: no mini malls with their approximation of Spanish two-story buildings, no oversized SUVs bulging out of parking-space lines. What used to say "Spanish-style" is now something diseased looking. Nobody seems to know how to stucco anymore.
— Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
Bang! The end of his little finger, now, and three more pieces of the rest. His middle finger was down to the knuckle, almost. Severard stared, his eyes with with horror, his breath coming short, fast gasps. Shock, amazement, stunned terror. Glokta leaned down to his ear. 'I hope you weren't planning to take up the violin, Severard. You'll be lucky if you can play a fucking gong by the time we're done here.
— Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways it will NOT work.
— Thomas Edison
My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk. I sing all day and I don’t mind the washing, and that’s how I know I’m in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.
— Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.
— Emma Donoghue, Room
Le Tub is a Miami oceanside restaurant that uses old bath tubs and toilets as decoration. If you're really lucky, you get a table by the water where you can see the manatees as they swim by. Someone once told me that it was one of Oprah's favorite restaurants, but seriously, Oprah has a lot of favorite things--it all sounds like lies at this point.
— Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
I put the photo in an album called Mortifying Emotional Moments, and I title it Soggy Napkin Note. The last selfie I posted in there was of me on the day I graduated college. My perfectly made up face is happy ... relieved. I called that one: Sallie Mae Can Suck It.
— Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
You’re not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.
— Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
In the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive me what I’m about to do.”“Forgive you wha—”My sentence was cut off as he clamped his mouth over mine, kissing me deeply....“Ready to make a scene?”He raised an eyebrow. “Do I have a choice?”“Not really. To quote something someone said to me recently, in the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive what I’m about to do.” I drew back my hand and slapped him across the face. The smack of flesh striking flesh echoed through the hall. Conversations stopped as people whipped around to stare at us. Raising my voice to something just below a shout, I snarled, “You asshole!
— Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses
I’ll use my divination and look into the future. Hey, you know what, I’m seeing the future right now. If I stand here and wait, then in three minutes a train’s going to come. And after that, another train’s going to come. Here, I’ll let you guess what’s going to happen afterwards. I’ll give you a hint—there’s a train.
— Benedict Jacka, Veiled
We are about to be eaten by a dragon, you’re crawling on bleeding hands through bat droppings, and you’re worried about being proper?
— Bethany Wiggins, The Dragon's Price
When you marooned me on that God forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing mate. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow.
— Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, Pirates of the Caribbean
I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Moms are so hard to understand! They'll never allow us to go on diet for fitness but forcefully make us fast in the name of God!~Swapna Rajput~
— Swapna Rajput, In Search of a Soulmate
Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history.
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
I do not see how my agreeing to marry a scruffy old brute will have the power to keep a fire-breathing dragon locked beneath a mountain. And if I don’t agree to marry him, will I truly be fed to the dragon? That is savage, and inhumane, and crazy.
— Bethany Wiggins, The Dragon's Price
I am so tired of this gothic crap,” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.
— Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night
My maid never sweeps under the bed so I asked her to do so today. Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago.
— Sanhita Baruah
Good gravy on biscuits, girlfriend, you are in the middle of more messes than a platter of scrambled eggs. What's going on? Are the planets aligned funny? Or is that unaligned? Shoot, I have no idea. But I need to know what's going on. You and I will be going out for coffee in about thirty seconds.
— Paige Shelton, Bookman Dead Style
No one's ever really ready for a troll.
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn’t really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn’t like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn’t exactly help me get into the school.
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Tests
... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.
— John David Anderson
She stood up when he approached her,Not to hug him,but to slap him.
— SanviWords
We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing
— Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
You’re lucky you didn’t know him back in his tech phase. There was this time in our second year when we were living in the same house. Kitchen table kept wobbling so Landis shoved this metal saucer under one of the legs. Wasn’t until two weeks later we found out it was a land mine.
— Benedict Jacka, Veiled
because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Boston and shut it, Terrance.” And then I hung up on him.
— Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors
The British were unhinged by the colonists' unorthodox fighting style and shocking failure to abide by gentlemanly rules of engagement. One scandalized British soldier complained that the American riflemen 'conceal themselves behind trees etc. till an opportunity presents itself of taking a shot at our advance sentries, which done, they immediately retreat. What an unfair method of carrying on a war!
— Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have.
— Bobby Darnell, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville
Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?
— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
I have the reports from Gemson and Boyd,” Syn replied. His boots were up on the corner of his desk as he reclined back in his chair, skimming the contents of the file.“How are they?” God asked. He removed his leather coat and draped it over the back of his chair.“Detailed. Good,” Syn answered. He brought his feet down and gave God a pointed look.The big man shook his head, already knowing what Syn wanted. He wanted everything they knew about this case. Now.“Alright Syn. Chill out. We’re not used to you yet. But we know what it means to have a Sergeant on our team. You’re the team's go to, and have just as much command and input regarding decision making as we do,” Day responded as God stared. Day chuckled. “Tito was just as important as the other Jacksons.”Syn threw a pen at Day, which he dodged easily. Syn couldn’t help but laugh at Day’s fucked up comparison. “I’m no fucking Tito, shithead.
— A.E. Via
She looks me dead in the face and says, “The safe word is going to be ‘immigration,’ because you know I’ll stop it.
— Kayti McGee, Topped
When she looked at him with those dark eyes, Nassar felt the urge to say something intelligent and deeply impressive. Unfortunately, nothing of the kind came to mind.
— Ilona Andrews, Grace of Small Magics
Lesson for young men: if you want your eventual wife to be excited about sucking your dick for forty years, don't create a generation of women who think enthusiasm about sex is a bad thing.
— Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody
You have more issues than Reader's Digest.
— Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?”“I like to think of it as learning from experience.
— Benedict Jacka, Taken
Oh my God, Green,” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
This is one of mommy's friends, buddy," I told Gavin. (...)"You're Mommy's fwiend?" he questioned. Carter just nodded with his mouth open and no sound coming out. I’m pretty sure he didn’t even hear Gavin. Someone could have asked him if he liked to watch gay porn while painting pictures of kittens and he would have nodded his head. Before anyone could react, Gavin pulled back one of his little fists of fury and slammed it right into Carters manhood. He immediately bent over at the waist, clutching his hands between his legs and gasping for breath. "Oh my God! Gavin!" I yelled, as I scrambled over to him, bent down and turned him around to face me while my dad and Liz laughed like hyenas behind me. "What is wrong with you? We don't hit people. EVER," I scolded. While Carter tried to breathe again, my dad managed to stop laughing long enough to apologize. "Sorry, Claire, that's probably my fault. I let Gavin watch "Fight Club" with me last night." "Your fwiends got you sick the other night. You said he was your fwiend," Gavin explained, like it made all the sense in the world. This just made my dad laugh even louder. "Not helping, Dad," I growled through clenched teeth. "You don't make my mommy sick, dicky-punk!" Gavin yelled at Carter, putting his two little fingers up by his eyes, and then pointing them right at Carter just like Liz had done to him earlier. "Jesus Christ," Carter wheezed. "Did he just threaten me?" "Jesus Cwist!" Gavin repeated back.
— Tara Sivec, Seduction and Snacks
People don’t just appear on the beach unless they’re demigods or gods or really, really lost pizza delivery guys. (It’s happened—but that’s another story.)
— Rick Riordan
I love our judicial system It's where Trump's fanciful delusions go to die. 
— Chad Almadani
The doctor asked me recently how I was feeling within myself, I replied, “absolutely fine doctor, but I’m terribly lonely without myself.
— Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme
If there’s one thing all diviners share, it’s curiosity. We really can’t help it; it’s just part of who we are. If you dug out a tunnel somewhere in the wilderness a thousand miles from anywhere and hung a sign on it saying, ‘Warning, this leads to the Temple of Horrendous Doom. Do not enter, ever. No, not even then’, you’d get back from lunch to find a diviner already inside and two more about to go in.Come to think about it, that might explain why there are so few of us.
— Benedict Jacka, Fated
The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.
— Victoria Aveyard
Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep.
— Louise Erdrich, LaRose
I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette
— Lin Manuel Miranda, Hamillton
I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette.
— Lin Manuel Miranda
You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Were you planning to jump off?"“Not on pizza day. Never on pizza day, which is one of the better days of the week.” I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector.
— Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places
I want my lobster in bite-sized pieces! How dare you make me chew more than thrice?
— Adam Jay Epstein, Circle of Heroes
There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ONE HUNDRED ONE WORLD ACCOUNTS in ONE HUNDRED ONE WORD COUNT
:I am Topaz,: the unicorn on the hill haughtily announced, :and this is my vale.:	:I was not aware unicorns could own vales,: Wareska linked. 	The unicorn stiffened, and even from this distance, Wareska could see her bright, golden eyes narrow dangerously. :Now you know,: she said with quiet menace.
— Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair
Shadowmane sighed as well. :We had better do what this Topaz commands. Unicorns are jerks when they don’t get their way.:
— Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair
I know nothing of magick,” the naked man said to the raven, “except what you told me.” He laughed sadly. “And I barely remember that. I tend to drift off when you ramble.
— Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair
Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were.
— James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'  'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' Will finished. 'Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the course. 'Of course, why one would want to be and fire flock of sheep is another matter entirely,' Will finished.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
My princess," began Mara, then found she could not speak the crushing phrases. "His Highness sends his warmest regards," she finished.She had the satisfaction of seeing Ianni's face come back to life; the great dark eyes lost their look of suffering and turned hopefully toward the king. Mara turned to him too, well-pleased with her merciful little lie. But one look at his startled face froze the blood in her veins. What a fool she was! Of course, he had understood every word she said. "Son of Pharaoh, live forever!" she gasped. "I crave pardon-- I could not believe you meant to wound this princess, however lowly--""You mean you forgot that I could understand," retorted Thutmose.
— Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Two passing jetliners reported to controllers they’d seen a man with a gun seated on a deck chair at eleven thousand feet…
— Tom Magliozzi, Car Talk Science: Mit Wants Its Diplomas Back
Ian was too Captain America for my taste.
— Gloria Craw, Atlantis Rising
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
— Winston S. Churchill
The number of times he'd had to pinch his nose to keep his soul in so that he'd make no noise while peering through the parlor keyhole...
— Emma Trevayne, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times
As he pulls away from her, his gaze meets mine, and we stare at each other for one long moment before I slowly raise my left hand and give him the middle finger.
— Deanna Chase, Accepting Fate
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
— Albert Einstein
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
— Carl Sagan
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery eac
— Albert Einstein
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
— Niels Bohr
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
— Christopher Hitchens
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
— Albert Einstein
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
— Isaac Newton, The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
— Albert Einstein
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
— Richard Feynman
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
— Michael Crichton, State of Fear
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
— Ray Bradbury
God does not play dice with the universe.
— Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.
— Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
— Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
— Albert Einstein
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
— Claude Lévi-Strauss
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
— Carl Sagan
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
— Stephen Hawking
Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuc
— Richard Dawkins
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
— Richard Feynman
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
— Terry Pratchett, Mort
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
— Thomas Jefferson, The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
— Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
— Douglas Adams
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
— Nikola Tesla
Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
— Antonio Gramsci, Gramsci's Prison Letters
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.
— H.P. Lovecraft
How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.
— Dan Barker, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
— Clive James
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
— Albert Einstein
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to lend its weight, require some other foundations instead, for human society cannot do without them, and it is dangerous to link up obedience to them with religious belief. If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.
— Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism
A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension.I was sorry of the man who, it seemed to me, was forced to hover about the edges of science. He was compelled to shiver endlessly in the outskirts, getting only feeble warmth from the distant sun of science- in-progress; while I, just beginning my research, was bathed in the heady liquid heat up at the very center of the glow.In a lifetime of being wrong at many a point, I was never more wrong. It was I, not he, who was wandering in the periphery. It was he, not I, who lived in the blaze.I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the 'growing edge;' the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.But is that true? Because a tree in spring buds and comes greenly into leaf, are those leaves therefore the tree? If the newborn twigs and their leaves were all that existed, they would form a vague halo of green suspended in mid-air, but surely that is not the tree. The leaves, by themselves, are no more than trivial fluttering decoration. It is the trunk and limbs that give the tree its grandeur and the leaves themselves their meaning., 'it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
— Isaac Asimov, Adding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
— Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Religion is a culture of faith science is a culture of doubt. 
— Richard Feynman
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
— Victor J. Stenger
It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacr
— George Bernard Shaw
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
— Thomas A. Edison
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
— Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.
— Andy Weir, The Martian
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
— Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
— Bertrand Russell
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.
— Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
— Galileo Galilei
In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for jury duty. I show up on time, ready to serve. When we get to the voir dire, the lawyer says to me, “I see you’re an astrophysicist. What’s that?” I answer, “Astrophysics is the laws of physics, applied to the universe—the Big Bang, black holes, that sort of thing.” Then he asks, “What do you teach at Princeton?” and I say, “I teach a class on the evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.” Five minutes later, I’m on the street. A few years later, jury duty again. The judge states that the defendant is charged with possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine. It was found on his body, he was arrested, and he is now on trial. This time, after the Q&A is over, the judge asks us whether there are any questions we’d like to ask the court, and I say, “Yes, Your Honor. Why did you say he was in possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine? That equals 1.7 grams. The ‘thousand’ cancels with the ‘milli-’ and you get 1.7 grams, which is less than the weight of a dime.” Again I’m out on the street.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.
— John  Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
— Carl Sagan
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
— Richard Feynman
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
— Richard Feynman
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.
— Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously...you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute...HA! I looked hot as a chick!
— Gerard Way
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
— Arthur C. Clarke
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
— Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
— Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
— Richard Dawkins
It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be , is every bit as strong as ours-arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don't. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure any insult, for a moment's additions existence. Life, in short just wants to be.
— Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
— Albert Einstein
John Muir, Earth — planet, Un
— John Muir
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.
— Edgar D. Mitchell