Six Quotes - Page 9

• She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.

  C.C. Hunter

  Hero, Kids, Rocks

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• History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Holocaust, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Tessa: "A little girl robbed you?" Will: "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name Six-Fingered Nigel." Jem:"Easy mistake to make." (later) Will: "I want to be back before dark. I have an assignation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone" Tessa: “Goodness, If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Mistake, Dark

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• I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Thinking, Two, Twenties

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• What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Nine, Forty

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• I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Writing, Wish

  Letter to Arthur Greeves on Edmund Spenser on March 07, 1916. "The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931". Book edited by Walter Hooper, p. 170, 2004.

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• Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said. Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?" "I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Years, Six Year Olds

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• I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.

  Ilona Andrews

  Breeding, Paperwork

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.24, Penguin

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• Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dog, College, Years

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.440, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I did have regrets these past six months,” he told me quietly. “I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you  .  .  .

  Karen Chance

  Regret, Blessing, Past

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• Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning bolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for—" "Nico, shut up!" Bianca put her hands to her face. "This is not your stupid Mythomagic game, okay? There are no gods!

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Hands, Games

  Rick Riordan (2008). “Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Two, People

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• ... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.

  Barack Obama

  Care, Way, Months

  Transcript of President Obama's news conference, www.cnn.com. December 20, 2013.

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• But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

  Frederick Marryat

  New York, 4th Of July, Pigs

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America”, p.38

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• A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

  Ray Fitzgerald

  Baseball, Two, Half

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• I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

  John Kruk

  Baseball, Crazy, Thinking

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• Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, New York, Hero

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• Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

  Paul Harvey

  Writing, Golf, Games

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• There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.

  Billy Sunday

  Jesus, Names, Two

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

  Jay Leno

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

  Peter Lynch

  Luck, Investing, Nine

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• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

  H. G. Wells

  Insomnia, Long, Mind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics

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• It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Children, Pain, Coffee

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• In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chilies , a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Coffee, Eggs, Two

  "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson".

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• Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

  Frank J. Prial

  Drinking, Wine, Writing

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