“Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message."
Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao."
I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I feel a bit apprehensive as I see that he's looking directly at me. But I'm not doing anything wrong, am I? I mean, it's not like stalking is against the law.
Oh. Well, OK, maybe stalking is against the law. But I've only been doing it for five minutes. Surely that doesn't count. And anyway, how does he know I'm stalking anyone? I might just be sitting here for my pleasure.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“Something tells me organizing a protest against your husband’s client has got to be even worse than selling his Tiffany clocks.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“Material possessions aren't important to me," I say breathlessly. "All that matters to me is yoga.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“You’ve gone back to the way you used to be before. The way you promised you’d never be again.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I mean . . . take the Lord of the Rings movies—they’ve got loads of messages. Like “Don’t lose your ring.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“The first story is all about the president washing his piano. At least I’m pretty sure that’s what presidente and lavoro pieno must mean”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I can't move. I'm paralyzed in the middle of the street, like the donkey in that Aesop's fable who couldn't choose between the bales of hay. They'll find me in years to come, still frozen to the spot, clutching my credit card.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
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“Boys... You're all idiots" - Carlaine”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician: Apprentice
“Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from Dom Wars: Round Six
“Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf between genius and the teaching profession. Anyone with a touch of genius seems to his teachers a freak from the very first. As far as teachers are concerned, they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fifteen, can be found at sixteen hanging out in bars, read forbidden books, write scandalous essays, occasionally stare down a teacher in class, are marked in the attendance book as rebels, and are budding candidates for room-arrest. A schoolmaster will prefer to have a couple of dumbheads in his class than a single genius, and if you regard it objectively, he is of course right. His task is not to produce extravagant intellects but good Latinists, arithmeticians and sober decent folk. The question of who suffers more acutely at the other's hands - the teacher at the boy's, or vice versa - who is more of a tyrant, more of a tormentor, and who profanes parts of the other's soul, student or teacher, is something you cannot examine without remembering your own youth in anger and shame. yet that s not what concerns us here. We have the consolation that among true geniuses the wounds almost always heal. As their personalities develop, they create their art in spite of school. Once dead, and enveloped by the comfortable nimbus of remoteness, they are paraded by the schoolmasters before other generations of students as showpieces and noble examples. Thus teh struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after year from school to school. The authorities go to infinite pains to nip the few profound or more valuable intellects in the bud. And time and again the ones who are detested by their teachers are frequently punished, the runaways and those expelled, are the ones who afterwards add to society's treasure. But some - and who knows how many? - waste away quiet obstinacy and finally go under.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Beneath the Wheel
“Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarian regimes which horrify us follow of necessity. From the collectivist standpoint intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual, are essential and unavoidable consequences of this basic premise, and the collectivist can admit this and at the same time claim that his system is superior to one in which the "selfish" interests of the individual are allowed to obstruct the full realisation of the ends the community pursues.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, quote from The Road to Serfdom
“even I could not guess what misgivings lay behind Perrin's clear eyes. Perhaps none; perhaps he trusted Laurel without question. Perhaps he was right. All I knew is what Laurel's hands said when she spoke Corbet's name. And how often she said it, until it seemed, like the falling of autumn leaves, or the long ribbons of migrating birds, one of the season's changes.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from Winter Rose
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