Thirty Quotes - Page 34

• Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

  Mark Millar

  Sleep, Pieces, One Piece

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• The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Eight, Thirty Eight, Can Do

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Years, Forever

  "Why the essential collection Bradbury Stories explains how to live forever" by Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Battle, Giants, Windmills

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1981). “Don Quixote”, Signet Classics

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• Shouldn't that be flipped right-side up?" I asked. "No," she said, eyes on the cards. After several moments of heavy silence, said, "You will destroy that which is undead." I waited about thirty seconds for her to continue, but she didn't. "Wait, that's it?" She nodded. "That's what the cards say to me.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Waiting, Silence

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• Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Tired, Men, Average

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.284, LSU Press

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• What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

  Obert Skye

  Eye, Winter, Hungry

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• And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cat, Nine, Dies

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.198, Faber & Faber

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• They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

  Markus Zusak

  Forever, Standing, Seconds

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.388, RH Childrens Books

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• What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Past, People

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Isabelle looked at him thoughtfully. "Did you seriously jump thirty feet out of a Malachi Configuration? Did he, Alec?" "He did," Alec confirmed. "I've never seen anything like it." "I've never seen anything like this." Jace lifted a ten-inch dagger from the floor. One of Isabelle's pink brassiers was spread on the wickedly sharp tip. Isabelle snached it off, scowling.

  Cassandra Clare

  Feet, Daggers, Jace

  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.765, Simon and Schuster

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• We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with a dreamy half smile still on her lips. I remained by her bedside. Cog would be amused by my efforts to comfort an upper. No. Not amused. Proud. I liked Ella. She was a good sort, much nicer than Trella, and I hoped she managed to survive the next thirty hours.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Accomplishment, Effort, Comfort

  Maria V. Snyder (2010). “Inside Out”, p.255, Harlequin

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• Yeah. And Savitar predates him. He has presided over this council since the very beginning, and notice, Savitar looks about thirty. We don’t know what he is, but he ain’t one of us and he ain’t human. And trust me, you don’t want to mess with him. (Paris) Thank you for that highly unamusing summation. Next time I have insomnia, I know who to call. In the meantime, little lioness who would probably like to live another year, don’t interrupt me again. I don’t like it and I tend to kill the things I don’t like. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Insomnia, Years, Paris

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• Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  My Birthday, Answers, Want

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.106, Atlântico Press

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• Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years? Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet. Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Sarcastic, Sweet, Skills

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Take Five: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Dna, Years

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• Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

  Stephen King

  Laughter, Thinking, Years

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sorry, Past, People

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Enough, Young, Stills

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• A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference.

  John Flanagan

  Men, Two, Differences

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• My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you’re at a profit.” “How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.” “I can forge signatures as well.” “Splendid. Exactly the bride I’ve been hoping for.

  Shana Abe

  Years, Two, Signatures

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• I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.

  Jason F. Wright

  Years, Waiting, Heaven

  Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”

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• There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Player, Television

  "Moneyball". Book by Michael Lewis, June 17, 2003.

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