robotnic’s Loved Quotes

“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”

Great journalism does not get enough credit in our society, but it holds the powerful to account and plays a vital part in a functioning democracy.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings.

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

C.C. Baxter: You hear what I said, Miss Kubelik? I absolutely adore you.
Fran Kubelik: Shut up and deal...

They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching... they'll see. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."

Go get 'em, champ. I'm da boss...

After that my guess is that you will never hear from him again. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone.

I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of shit... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid.

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.

Hannibal Lecter: [on telephone] I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye.
Clarice Starling: Dr. Lecter?... Dr. Lecter?... Dr. Lecter?... Dr. Lecter?...

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

If you go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.