Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Walter Benjamin

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Yukio Mishima

Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

Jonathan Raban

When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.

John Green

..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.

John Green

Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

John Green

The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me.

Paul Auster

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

Mike Birbiglia

When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.

Susan Wyderko

We treat callers as if they were our own mother or a relative.

Linda Lavin

He taught me how to sing, how to belt, what my mother was talking about all those years. I had no idea I had that power in my voice.

Richard K. Morgan

When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

Richelle Mead

Dimitri: "I also have a feeling your mother's going to have one ugly conversation with me." Rose: "You're about to go face down Strigoi, and my mother's the one you're scared of?" Dimitri: "She's a force to be reckoned with. Where do you think you got it from?" Rose: "It's a wonder you bother with me then." Dimitri: "You're worth it, believe me.

Ryan Kwanten

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

Roz Chast

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

Ruben Blades

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

Romola Garai

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Tyler Perry

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Larry Brown

He'd be in a lot more trouble when he got at home if he didn't do what he did.

Mark Mersel

He knows those guys. It's more of a homecoming than you might know.

Simon Spurr

I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home.

Larry Ellison

When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.