Titles Quotes - Page 23

• A good title is the title of a successful book.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Inspiration, Successful

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.75, Grove Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

  Muhammad Ali

  Winning, Thug, Names

  52 Copy quote

• All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Boys, Men

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.131, 谷月社

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.

  Shannon Hale

  Believe, Book, Character

  4 Copy quote

• Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Trying, Path

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.67, Vintage Canada

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Reading, Eye, Appreciate

  4 Copy quote

• More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Men, Giving, Honor

  4 Copy quote

• The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Hate, Believe

  4 Copy quote

• A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Humor

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1 (1894)

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

  Jose Saramago

  Hierarchy, Artistic, Plebeians

  13 Copy quote

• All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

  John Lubbock

  Horse, Mind, Contentment

  Sir John Lubbock (1904). “The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Orange, Law

  A Clockwork Orange (1962) p. 21

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Night, Law

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.94, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Library, Lists, Desks

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

  Jim Butcher

  Grace, Has Beens, Seems

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.200, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Athlete, Character

  43 Copy quote

• Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

  William Gibson

  Jobs, People, Wanted

  William Gibson (2003). “Idoru”, p.51, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

  James Clavell

  Real, Important, Shoguns

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.207, Dell

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Aug 20, 2016

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.

  Mary Roach

  Pages, Path

  Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)

  Maya Banks

  Beautiful, Hands, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

  Elizabeth I

  Nature, Ocean, Science

  24 Copy quote

• You told me there wouldn’t be any Rod Serling voice-overs, yet here I am in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode. Oh, and let me guess the title of it, Night of the Terminally Stupid! (Channon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Twilight, Night

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Dragonswan”, p.37, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Animal, Glasses

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I prefer sidekick. I tried once for the title of Padawan, but Bubba wigged out saying that mentors are always killed off in books and movies and he’d be damned if he was going to die once he taught me everything I needed to know about killing zombies. (Mark) Then why let you be his sidekick? Isn’t that the same thing? (Nick) Uh, no. In the movies, the sidekicks are the ones who die. (Mark)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Book, Zombie, Mentor

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.152, St. Martin's Griffin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source