Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Douglas Adams

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.

Douglas Adams

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

Douglas Adams

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

Douglas Adams

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Douglas Adams

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Doris Lessing

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Doris Lessing

Small things amuse small minds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Samuel Goldwyn

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

Samuel Goldwyn

Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.

Winston Churchill

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Henry A. Kissinger

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Lord Chesterfield

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Neil Young

Holding back is so close to stealing.

Cassandra Clare

Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

Cassandra Clare

Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat.

Cassandra Clare

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

Cassandra Clare

It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

Jacob Riis

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Cassandra Clare

Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed." Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.

Cassandra Clare

Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?

Cassandra Clare

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.