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William Golding
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or... JON COURTENAY GRIMWOOD While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. JEFFREY ARCHER A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love. RAQUEL CEPEDA There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus... MILDRED D. TAYLOR A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is ... JEAN PAUL RICHTER I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping ?' 'You're bitching about ... LETA BLAKE You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p... DEBORAH KERR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely... DEBORAH KERR The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe... SHARIF MOHAMED I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Desperate Housewives. AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY here we were again , always saying good-bye MAGGIE STIEFVATER Life is like a seesaw you can be up hi one minute then before you know it you can be down low the ne... GARY F EVANS... The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Sun shines on my back as I walk away Sun shines on my chest and I return The fall air is c... BRENT M. JONES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Muscles come and go; flab lasts. BILL VAUGHAN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL And the roads called us to take the walk. AVIJEET DAS The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera... GEORGE ORWELL Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART THOUGHTS COME AND GO, WHAT CAN YOU CATCH AFTER ALL? DEYTH BANGER [talking about his new wife, Laura] Angus the Groom: Ignore her. She's drunk. At least I hope s... FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL too much morality, too little sense. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL Tom: The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I always just hoped that, that I'd meet some nice friendly girl, like the look of her, hope the look... FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY Middle-Age Girls Gone Wild. SEX AND THE CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. SEX AND THE CITY I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire. SEX AND THE CITY Suicide is not glamorous and should not be portrayed in a glamorous light. SEX AND THE CITY When Charlotte really liked somebody she said their whole name. It helped her picture their future m... SEX AND THE CITY I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another al... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... SEX AND THE CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... SEX AND THE CITY Middle-Age Girls Gone Wild. SEX AND THE CITY They practically chased me with torches like I was Fuckenstein! [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY I don't know. I moved to L.A. to be a rock star and a comedian, and now I'm a contributor to Cosmopo... SEX AND THE CITY It was a typical downtown male mix. Ten percent Wall Street, ten percent real estate, and ten percen... SEX AND THE CITY The only one who should have to pay for a bad relationship is the person in your next relationship. ... SEX AND THE CITY Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something ... SEX AND THE CITY I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so hig... SEX AND THE CITY What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your ... ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Fiona: Where's Gareth? Matthew: Torturing Americans. Fiona: How thoughtful of him. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once. MICHAEL R. FRENCH When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS They practically chased me with torches like I was Fuckenstein! [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY It's my birthday. I'm officially old. [Carrie on her 35th Birthday] SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking. SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Hi, Mrs. Collier. I'm a Jew now. How are you? [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY the lights fade to black. SEX AND THE CITY
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