"People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy."
Joss Whedon
"Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one."
Brad Paisley
"You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney
"Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you."
Siobhan Vivian, The List
"Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."
"Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa?"
Matt Groening
What's Santa gonna get you?
"I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark."
Lisa Edelstein
"What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?"
High Fidelity
"There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'."
Joss Whedon
The one with the shit-ton of books.
"Live free or die, Captain."
"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"But I loved Narcissus because as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored."
Oscar Wilde, The Disciple
"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
P.J. O'Rourke
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
Ernest Hemingway
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Both of them have 5 stars, but which one is going to be the best of the bunch?
"Honestly, not enough people know how to use good manners as a weapon."
"You can take the girl out of the universe but you can’t take the universe out of the girl."
"You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me."
"If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words."
"Once upon a time... this was when the world had sung to him, the dream-walker, the song-weaver, the star-stringer."
"Once upon a time... this was when the world had sung to him, the dream-walker, the song-weaver, the star-stringer."
"I was holding someone captive and all that was going through my mind was a Billboard Top 40 love song. I was going to hell."
"I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting."
"He was there for my crash and burns. Pulling me from the wreckage when everyone else was toasting marshmallows."
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
Vera Nazarian
"Every villian is a hero in his own mind."
Tom Hiddleston
"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"
Humbert Wolfe
"Laugh at the grief that poisons your heart."
"The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something."
"I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn."
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Joseph Brodsky
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely."
"It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor... but family."
Tywin Lannister
"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of."
Joss Whedon
"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."
"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet."
Anna Louise Strong
"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
"It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
Sir Edmund Hillary
"Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?"
"Greetings, Echo Six. Welcome to the Forum. There is truth to be shared. Let us begin."
