Fifty Quotes - Page 15

• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

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• Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

  Janette Rallison

  People, House, Trying

  Janette Rallison (2009). “All's Fair in Love, War and High School”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Spring, Water, Three

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• Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

  Carol Shields

  Moving, Book, Reading

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• I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

  Meg Cabot

  Good Night, Mean, Past

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• Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.

  David Nicholls

  Space, Lenses, Firsts

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.

  Jeff Kinney

  Book, Animal, Thinking

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• I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.

  Lauren Willig

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

  Susanna Clarke

  Cat, Silence, Peculiar

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.630, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I've asked you fifty questions and still have no sense of your life, your family, what you care about. They want to know about you, Katniss." "But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to time in the past!" I say.

  Suzanne Collins

  Past, Katniss, Care

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.159, Scholastic Inc.

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• Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Thinking, Fifteen

  "Fables & Reflections (The Sandman, Book 6)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August – October 1991, June – August 1992, June 1993.

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• Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

  Rick Riordan

  Pain, Jumping, Pits

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• I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend them on matters of drainage and overdue accounts? I must husband my hours and spend every one of them wisely. I regret that I didn't come to this realization until I reached fifty years of age. Calpurnia, you would do well to adopt such an attitude at an earlier age. Spend each of your allotted hours with care.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Husband, Attitude, Regret

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• ...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.

  Desmond Morris

  Animal, Men, Acting

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• You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wise, Long, Age

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.331, Penguin

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• Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that.

  Kim Harrison

  Kids, College, Yummy

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• When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it from her. It felt like it had bricks in it. "Grandmother needs you to carry some things," Paul told me. "Yes," I said through gritted teeth. "I sort of figured that out fifty pounds ago.

  Richelle Mead

  Grandmother, Teeth, Giants

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.663, Penguin

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• Some kids get called "bundles of joy" or "slices of heaven" or "dreams come true." We got "the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments." Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

  James Patterson

  Dream, Kids, Dna

  "Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel". Book by James Patterson, February 14, 2011.

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• We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Years, Joy

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.64, Penguin

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• I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was taped to the back of my dresser drawer. What do you think? Buried treasure? Secret passageway? Locked room where they keep crazy old Aunt Edna?" "It probaly unlocks another dresser," Tori said. "One they threw out fifty years ago." "Its tragic, being born without an imagination. Do they hold telethons for that?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Aunt, Thinking

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• I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long time for a n=Bean sidhes, ans so far his track record looked more like the fifty-yard dash than the Boston marathon.

  Rachel Vincent

  Boston, Like Love, Long

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• The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Crush, Boys, Eight

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• Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Love You, Dying

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.300, Bantam

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• It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

  Lisi Harrison

  Life, Second Chance, Creating

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Years, Might, Realizing

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1773, Simon and Schuster

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