Hats Quotes - Page 38

• I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

  Margaret Haddix

  Party, Celebrate, Knows

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011). “The 39 Clues #10: Into the Gauntlet”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there’s a garden inside me.

  Shane Jones

  War, Sadness, Writing

  Shane Jones (2010). “Light Boxes: A Novel”, p.54, Penguin

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• The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Medicine, Fields

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• The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Men, Years

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation.

  Betty Smith

  Mean, Rome, Want

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• She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Gideon, Green

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• It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

  Jennifer Egan

  Sweet, Men, Blue

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.107, Anchor

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• Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

  Gail Carriger

  Silly, Ivy, Victim

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• Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Looks, Look Up

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.361, Penguin

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• Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

  Richelle Mead

  Stars, Fire, Skeletons

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.156, Penguin

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• Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.

  Anna Godbersen

  Hands, Forever, Want

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• [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

  Jared Diamond

  Crush, Religious, Patriotic

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dog, Lying, I Love Him

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.665, Wordsworth Editions

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• Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.

  Cassandra Clare

  Magnus Bane, Should, City Of Glass

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.971, Simon and Schuster

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• But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Ties, Track

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• dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying on a new hat and looks more the coquette then ever. she is a child and a mannequin and death. i can't hate that. she didnt do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.

  Charles Bukowski

  Children, Hate, Love You

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• The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

  Frederick Buechner

  Self, Weather, World

  Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

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• The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Memories, Father, Taken

  Yehuda Amichai, “My Father”

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• A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Hands, White, Differences

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• The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.

  Jim Butcher

  Home, Guy, Mustache

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.51, Penguin

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• You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

  Jim Butcher

  Black, Creepy, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favour: The Dresden Files, Book Ten”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Hate, Men

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Political Opinions, Views, Coats

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.8, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Cutting, Animal

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.294, e-artnow

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• He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

  Alice Sebold

  Mouths, Lovely Bones, Ends

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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