This is the last of the coolsig entries. Please note that I did not select these quotes.
*Constance nervously bites her thumbnail* Tybalt: Do you bite your thumb at me sir?! Constance: No! I just bite my nails, that’s all. Tybalt: Do you bite your nails at me sir?! Constance: No I swear! Look, I’ll never bite them again. This’ll be a great chance for me to quit once and for all. Thanks. — ‘Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)’
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.” – Gandalf (The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien)
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. – Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures.
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?” – Calvin and Hobbes
“I don’t need parents. All I need is a recording that says, ‘Go play outside!” – Calvin and Hobbes
“Reality continues to ruin my life.” – Calvin and Hobbes
“So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil and we will all go home in the end.” – Lestat (Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice)
The reason I’m having so much trouble flying this ship is because it’s black. The walls are black, the floor is black, the console is black, the switches are black, the labels are little black letters printed on a black background, and when you press anything, a black light lights up in black to tell you you’ve done it.’ Ford Prefect – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such and ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity… we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.” A.E. Newton
“Behind them lay pain, and death, and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. But they weren’t alone.” – The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. -Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
“Fifteen religions at least. That’s a lot of religions for one God.” – The Virginian (Owen Wilder)
“It only makes sense that every facet of our daily lives should depend upon the position of celestial bodies hundreds of millions of miles away.” – Calvin and Hobbes
Don’t try to out-weird me, three eyes. I get weirder things than you in my breakfast cereal. – Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galazy
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. – Douglas Adams
“I thought I had a great idea today, but it never really took off. In fact, it didn’t even get on the runway. I guess you could say it exploded in the hangar.” – Calvin and Hobbes
“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” -Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
“A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company” John MacDonald in ‘The Turquoise Lament’, 1973
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