Literary Quotes

Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of year. It is the season of reversals, when the birds no longer sing in the morning and the evenings are made up of equal parts golden light and black clouds.

Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

"Don't you just love these long, rainy afternoons in New Orleans, when an hour isn't an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?"

Blanche, Streetcar Named Desire

Somewhere between God and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back is worse.

Jeanette Winterson,The Passion

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?--William Kittredge

Humorous Quotes

She sounds like a stegosaurus with its arse on fire. - Dylan Moran from his Monster tour

Its not the winning, its the taking part. Well, its not the taking part, its the sense of futile despair. - Bill Bailey regarding the British from his Part Troll tour

It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday...or the crazy melty land...or you know, the world without shrimp.--Anya
from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I was pondering the immortal words of Socrates: I drank what?--Val Kilmer in Real Genius

That's not a lie. That's a gift for fiction.--from the film State and Main by David Mamet

Time travel is like going to Paris. You can't just read the guide book. You've got to eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing total strangers. Or is that just me?--Doctor Who (9)