“The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
“K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
“OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
“Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
“If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup.
But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
“I dream of an Heir who shall be a Dragon-Whisperer, a Swordfighter, a Man who talks with Monsters and who will harness the power of Thor's thunder itself...”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
“after Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn’t”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
“I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
“Imagine if you had spent the whole first part of your life trying to walk on your hands. The clumsiness of it, always falling over, always stumbling, always the last at everything. Imagine the joy of discovering that in fact you could walk on your feet after all.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
Cressida Cowell
Born place: in Central London, The United Kingdom
Born date April 15, 1966
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“When his troops reached the rocket camp, they found almost everything of value gone and Stalin was reportedly furious. “This is absolutely intolerable,” he said, according to reliable defectors. “We defeated Nazi armies; we occupied Berlin and Peenemünde, but the Americans got the rocket engineers. What could be more revolting and more inexcusable? How and why was this allowed to happen?” In a way, the Red Army’s race toward Peenemünde was symbolic: It was, without anyone knowing it, the beginning of the race for outer space, or what Winston Churchill once called “the wizard war.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Fifties
“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is a family resemblance.”
― Lewis Thomas, quote from The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
“A democracy of permanent consensus will not long remain a democracy.”
― Tony Judt, quote from Ill Fares the Land
“Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”
― John Piper, quote from God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
“Ayşe has always admired the Ottoman talent for euphemism. The Auspicious Event was the massacre and execution of ten thousand Janissaries. Bodies had been heaped in the Hippodrome, rotting in the June heat. The more perfumed the language, the more brutal the repression.”
― Ian McDonald, quote from The Dervish House
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