A simple trying author to write better.

Sayings and Quotes

"I have a mind like a steel trap. It's rusty and illegal in 47 states"
~unknown

"I'm not deaf. I'm just ignoring you."

"When life gives you lemons, make grape juice. Then sit back and let the world wonder
how you did it."

"You-Off my planet."

"Earth's full. Go home."

I can't hate you. I can't hate the pathetic. ~Rory from Gilmore Girls

Let's take things one step at a time. This is a charge of C4. I can tell because there's 'C4' written all over it. ~Michael Vaughn from Alias

Marshall Flinkman: I've got a spork.
Jack Bristow: bewildered What's a spork?
Marshall Flinkman: It's like a half-spoon... half-fork, will that do?
Jack Bristow: That will work. ~Alias

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together... ~Carl Zwanzig

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~Cicero

I cannot live without books. ~Thomas Jefferson

Never say goodbye, because goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting." ~Peter Pan

"Someone told me lately, everyone deserves a chance to fly." ~"Defying Gravity", Wicked

Truth takes time. ~Anonymous

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope across Niagra Falls. Intelligence is not
trying."

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

"What if there had been room at the inn?" (On the origins of Christianity)

"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."

"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

"Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat."

-Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

-I'm ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting
me is another matter.

-Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

-From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with
laughter. Someday I intend to read it.

"I don't know how to fight, all I know is how to stay alive."

"Could I ever love someone so much I'd forget I have a duty to my people?" -Jonathan

"A man wants to be a woman's first love, while a woman wants to be his last."

"I was not so sure then, but I am now. I am completely sure that love has blessed us."

"Forgiven so I can forgive."

"He changes women like clothes."

"She grows more beautiful every-time he sees her and he doesn't mind one bit."

"Do what you know is right, and don't think about what anyone else has to say." -Erin

"I wish for a breath as your beauty steals it away."

"Food for thought. That's what I'm eating right now!"

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

"Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard." - George Cooper

"Practice is the difference between winning and being worm food." -Raoul

"She doesn't need a sword - that temper sharpens her tongue just fine." -Neal

"I have a two-hundred yard range on this. Care to try me?" -Daine

BRIAR - "You're more trouble then you're worth."
EVVY - "I'm a girl. That's my job."

"Traders mourn in red? What kind of barbaric thing is that?" -Briar

"I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we?" -Sandry

Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried to slam a revolving door

A conclusion is simply a place where someone gets tired of thinking.

If you get lost just keep on going.

Shame on you if you fool me once, shame on me if you fool me twice.

Gregory House, MD- "Everyone lies"

Alice Hoffman- "The weak are cruel, the strong have no need to be."

At World's End:

Captain Jack Sparrow- "Mr. Gibbs, you may throw my hat."
Gibbs- "Thank ye Cap'n!"
Jack- "Now go get it."

Faythe Sanders, Stray - "Its not the length of the word; its how well you use it."

Elena Michaels, Bitten - "I think a woman's worth should be defined not by the size of
her bust," I rammed my fist up into his adam's apple, "but by the strength of her right
hook."

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams -- John Barrymore

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely -- Erma Bombeck

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else -- Erma Bombeck

If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develope a hunger to accomplish your
dreams -- Les Brown

Patience is the companion of wisdom -- Saint Augustine

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe
-- Josh Billingshook."

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to
make it worth the effort.

Dare to be stupid.

My mind doesn't just wonder, some times it leaves completely.

Power corrupts.
Ultimate power is kind of cool.

Well aren't you a waste of two billion years of evolution...

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

That makes me so mad and so sad. I'm smad.

"So what are you going to do?"
"Persuade him that he wants to come with us more than he wants to stay with her."
"How will you do that?"
"I'll lie to him."
"And if that doesnt work?"
"Then I'll tell the truth. We are allowed to do that in emergencies. We cant plan for
everything you know."

"Curiosity killed the cat... but satisfaction brought it back." - Alianne, Trickster's
Choice.

"If subject fails to comply, use aggression to liberate his true dispostion. Man, did
they pick the wrong guy for this one." - Demyx, Kingdom Heart 2.

"I'll revel in your glory only after you help me with my schoolwork, O moon of
mathematical wisdom.- Cleon, Page, Protector of the Small Quartet.

-Life stinks, not mine, YOURS!

-It doesn't matter how you look, it matters what is inside, NOT!

-I don't think he would agree with that, but then, who cares?~In love with a god

-Bloody Hell!~Ron

-If you don't know by now, I'm not about to tell you~Hermione

-When a boring talk is over, People clap like hell. This is because they are so happy
about the speakers depature~me

-I'll die till I'm dead!~ anonymous

-When people put unkown at the end of a quote, it means that they don't know how to
spell anonymous~Unknown

-They say that the truth will set you free, but whenI tell the truth, I get grounded.
~Heartdamoose

-As cute as a button, hey, since when are buttons cute?~anonymous

-As easy as pie. Is pie easy?

-The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever agrees.

-Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown (Got it from Light of Polaris)

-Entia non sunt multiplicanapraeter necessitatem, which in english means, No more things
should be presumed to exist than absolutely necessary. I just got that from a book.

-Before you critisize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away
from them and you have their shoes.

-Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

-An apple away keeps the doctor away, if well aimed.

-What if the hokey pokey really IS what it's all about? Will we all have to turn
ourselves around?

-Ever stop to think and forget to start again?

-I've been fighting for so long that I've forgotten what I'm fighting for...

-Maybe I'm the chance of rain

-Aurum Est Potestas=mathematical wisdom. (gold is power)

'If you get lost just keep on going '-Stephan King Black House

25 REASONS I OWE MY MOTHER

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished
cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3 . My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of
next
week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the
store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. My mother taught t me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your nec k!"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't
have wonderful parents like you do."

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION .
"Just wait until we get home."

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that
way."

19. My mother taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don 't come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"