Seven Quotes - Page 9

• Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Skeletons, Feet, Scythes

  "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 47), March 2008.

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• Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a secure position. I have been like this ever since the age of seven when, sitting on a high wall and reading The Water Babies, I was so seduced by the descriptions of underwater life that I unconsciously relaxed my muscles. Instead of being held buoyant by the water that so vividly surrounded me in my mind, I plummeted to the ground and knocked myself out. I can still feel the scar under my fringe now. Reading can be dangerous.)

  Diane Setterfield

  Baby, Wall, Reading

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

  Randy Pausch

  Careers, Computer, Academic

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Men, Feet

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• when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life

  Jenny Downham

  Holiday, Car, Dying

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

  Heinrich Heine

  Country, Garden, House

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• There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

  W. C. Fields

  Children, Food, Firsts

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• No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Heart, Waiting, Soul

  "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?

  Stephen Crane

  Sea, Land, Names

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.898, Library of America

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• Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Orange, Years

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• Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Dream, Giving Up

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• My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Teacher, Betrayal, Men

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• When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

  Dana Stabenow

  Party, Divorce, Political

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• I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

  Meg Cabot

  Eight, Long, Gone

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size.

  Maureen Johnson

  Mean, Cake, Size

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.52, Penguin

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• I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

  Harry S. Truman

  Freedom, Agency, Historical

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• Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that cell? Peaceable Sherwood? I'm tired of hearing about Peaceable Sherwood! Turn him loose in the cell for the night. - Which one of you said 'Where'll he be by morning?' Where does he look like he's going to be by morning, I ask you - a hundred and fifty miles away?" I was, to be exact, only seven and a half miles away by morning.

  Elizabeth Marie Pope

  Morning, Tired, Night

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• If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Making Love, Mind, Shade

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman: A Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Brother, Forgiving, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

  David Levithan

  Prayer, Heart, Bottles

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Smart, Feet, Tall

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

  John Green

  Faces, Energy, South Carolina

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Strong, Fighting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.398, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

  Bill Bryson

  Years, Months, Six

  Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House

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• all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

  Truman Capote

  Prayer, Past, Simple

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.62, Vintage

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