Thread: Book Quotes!

This thread is for any members who read books!
What are some of your favorite titles, and quotes?


ETA: I'm not sure where to put this topic. I hope this is the correct spot.

i think this should be in the happy fun forum angel.

farvorite book? id say The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy!
and for quote?
''my name is not important.''
''please, tell me, i cant call you not important, can i?''
''ok ok, my name is Slartibartfast.''
''your name is WHAT?''
''thats what i told you, my name is not important.''

oh, and some others q^_^p:
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

You barbarians! I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'l have you hung, drawn, and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until you've had enough. And then I will do it again! And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will JUMP on them! And I will carry on jumping on them until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do...

Charming man. I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one...

Now it is such a bizarrely impossible coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The arguement goes something like this:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.

i hope that after this, at least somebody will take me serious, EVER!

LOL I love this thread. I like your quotes Ederius. Anyways here's a quote I loved most in my book (Fit to be tied. Wasn't a bad book it was decent kinda silly sad and funny at the same time) today:

Tom: How can you be the love of my life and the scourge of my existance at the same time?
Jen: mmm...multi-tasking?

Originally Posted by Ederius

oh, and some others q^_^p:
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

You barbarians! I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'l have you hung, drawn, and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until you've had enough. And then I will do it again! And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will JUMP on them! And I will carry on jumping on them until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do...

Charming man. I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one...

Now it is such a bizarrely impossible coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The arguement goes something like this:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.

i hope that after this, at least somebody will take me serious, EVER!

Edit: Damn,I just put that quote down and then I just realize you had it up there XD; but it's a great quote indeed

i just want to know what genres people read (apart from manga of course)

John Grisham's
A Time To Kill

"Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!!!"

I haven't actually read the book before but I have seen the movie and I'm just assuming that the quote up there is in the book. That was a very tight situation for that guy.

ok people, some quotes from Terry Pratchett, read these if u have the time :
"Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'."

The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

"You're dead," he said. Keli waited. She couldn't think of any suitable reply. "I'm not" lacked a certain style, while "Is it serious?" seemed somehow too frivolous.

"You won't get away with this," said Cutwell. He thought for a bit and added, "Well, you will probably get away with it, but you'll feel bad about it on your deathbed and you'll wish -- " He stopped talking.

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

The vermine is a small black and white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it.

"It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse."
-- The Four Horsemen of the Apocralypse encounter unexpected difficulties

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"

All dwarfs are by nature dutiful, serious, literate, obedient and thoughtful people whose only minor failing is a tendency, after one drink, to rush at enemies screaming "Arrrrrrgh!" and axing their legs off at the knee.

He nodded to the troll which was employed by the Drum as a splatter [footnote: Like a bouncer, but trolls use more force].

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts. That way, everyone's happy.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.

Most alchemists were nervous, in any case; it came from not knowing what the crucible of bubbling stuff they were experimenting with was going to do next.

"Why's it called Ming?" said the Archchancellor, on cue. The Bursar tapped the pot. It went ming.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.
The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.

"Dock-a-loodle-fod!"
-- Dyslexic roosters are a sad sight
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because -- what with trolls and dwarfs and so on -- speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Yabi was cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Yabi are renowned for being remarkably short and bad-tempered.

Greebo's technique was unscientific and wouldn't have stood a chance against any decent swordmanship, but on his side was the fact that it is almost impossible to develop decent swordmanship when you seem to have run into a food mixer that is biting your ear off.

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!"

When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.

"He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at."

ask if you want any more XD

"Cold hard figures have shown that when battling the living dead, nothing has saved more victims then baisic, tight clothing and closely croped hair"

Thats right people, if you have a mullet, you WILL be eaten.

Ford prefect: we stand about as much chance as a whelk does in a supernova.
Arthur Dent: what does a whelk have to do with a supernova?
Ford Prefect: it doesnt stand a chance in one!

(hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy)

keiranto!

"Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of my- self. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since -- on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, pad of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!"
Great Expectations Charles Dickens

This quote always makes me a bit sad as Dickens completely destroys unprospects of a happy conclusion.

"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings


"In a spirit of mutinous resistance, she climbed the steep grassy slope to the bridge, and when she stood on the driveway, she decided she would stay there and wait until something significant happened to her. This was the challenge she was putting to existence – she would not stir, not for dinner, not even for her mother calling her in. She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, rose to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance."
-- Ian McEwan, Atonement

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