Titles Quotes - Page 24

• I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pride, Secret

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.57, Basic Books

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• It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Stupid, Dark, Class

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.111, Penguin

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• Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

  Harper Lee

  Keepers, Proven

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his title was Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips nude at night and runs around through the woods hunting small woodland creatures. I'm a premier Master of the Dead. I will go where I please.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Night, Men

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• Brooke?” I puff out a sigh. “For chrissake, Reid, who do you think it is? And haven’t you put me into your contacts yet?” “Yeah... It just says Satan, though, and I forgot I’d assigned that title to you.

  Tammara Webber

  Thinking, Puff, Satan

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.64, Tammara Webber

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• I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

  Deborah Harkness

  Mean, Vampire, Sound

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin

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• (Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Stars, Eye

  'To the Moon'

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• But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pride, Fishing, Dancing

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• Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.

  Nora Roberts

  One Day, Looks, Use

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• She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Mind, Attention

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• Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Book, Smell, Texture

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• I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Speak, Dauntless

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• I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.

  Neil Gaiman

  Horse, Memories, Father

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Let me ask you, how many atheists are now in this house? Perhaps not a single one of you would accept the title, and yet, if you live from Monday morning to Saturday night in the same way as you would live if there were no God, you are practical atheists.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Monday, Morning, Atheist

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120”, p.569, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Father, Yield

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.280, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.

  Deborah Harkness

  Men, Darkness, Majesty

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.527, Penguin

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• It's not a good feeling--knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Knowing, Feelings, Monsters

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.427, Hachette UK

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• . . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and---from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.

  William Faulkner

  Christian, Fall, Light

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• It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Flower, Sunshine, Thinking

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Believe, People

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

  Mark Twain

  Freedom, Heart, Democracy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Country, Fashion, Lying

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• Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.

  Thomas Paine

  4th Of July, Home, Character

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.92, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

  Mark Twain

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Honor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to me that Brussels, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Years, Cities

  "Biden Says Brussels Could Be 'Capital of the Free World'", www.foxnews.com. May 25, 2010.

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