Quotes from No Talking

“Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from No Talking

“Okay heres the deal a whole day of NO TALKING IN SCJHOOL.Not in class,not in the halls, not on the plaground nowhere.No talking at all. And its a contest- BOYS AGAINST GIRLS. Whichever side talks less, wins.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from No Talking

“WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from No Talking

“Laketon Elementary School was in the middle of a medium-size town in the middle of New Jersey. There was a reason Dave was in the middle of his fourth hour of not talking, but this isn’t the time to tell about that. This is the time to tell what he figured out in the middle of his social studies class.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from No Talking

“David?” Dave had been home five minutes when he heard his mom come in the front door and call his name. He was upstairs. In the bathroom. She called again. “David, answer me!” To be more specific, Dave was sitting on the toilet. “DAVID! ANSWER ME!” Dave knew that tone of voice. He had to do something right away. So he reached over and banged on the inside of the bathroom door. It was the wrong move. His mom was up those front stairs and”
― Andrew Clements, quote from No Talking

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“أنت ترى، لم أكن قادراً على قول شيء جديد، لكني ما زلت قد نجحت في أن أقول شيئاً! لم أعد أهتم إذا ما كان جديداً أم لا، على النقيض مما يعتقده المدَعون الحمقى، فمن الأفضل أن أقول عدة كلمات على أن أبقى ساكتاَ ، ما فائدة أن تبقى أفواهنا مغلقة بحق السماء ؟
لماذا نشاهد الحياة بسلبيه وهي تطعن أجسادنا وأرواحنا مثل قطار قاسٍ يتقدم ببطء إلى واجهته ؟
عرفت رجلاً كان في نفس عمري لمَح إلي أن الصمت أفضل من المحاربه ضد قوى الشر التي تتربص بنا وتدمرنا ; أقول أنه لمح لأنه لم يصرح بذلك قط، كان جالساً على مكتب مثل صبي مطيع، وظل يكتب في كراسة من الصباح وحتى الليل كلمات شخص آخر في صمت، أحياناًأتخيل أنه لم يمت وما زال يكتب، أخاف من أن صمته قد يمتد بداخلي في شكل رعب فظيع .”
― Orhan Pamuk, quote from The New Life

“Most girls take one look at you and swoon. You've never had to really work for someone's affection or put effort into maintaining it. In many ways, your natural gifts have done you a disservice-- they've stunted your sensitivity and charm! You've never had to develop insight into what will make a girl laugh and come to love you for reasons that aren't handsome or heroic. That's why smees are experts on the subtle arts of courtship and seduction; nothing comes easy to us, but we do understand and live by the Lover's Maxim."

"And what on earth is the Lover's Maxim?" asked Maz, feeling very uninformed.

The smee cleared his throat. "If you can't be handsome, be rich. If you can't be rich, be strong. If you cant be strong, be witty."

"But what if you can't be witty?" Max wondered.

"Learn the guitar.”
― Henry H. Neff, quote from The Maelstrom

“There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.”
― Giacomo Casanova, quote from The Story of My Life

“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”
― Carter G. Woodson, quote from The Mis-Education of the Negro

“From now, his life was forged for one purpose and one purpose alone- revenge.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

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