“How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.” ThinkingCharacterStoriesAgePastNamesInterestToo MuchPagesForgottenImmortalityThrownVolumeIdleBoastAnecdotes Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
“New Rule: I don't give two fingleberries and a McShit-all that Dumbledore is gay. I never wanted to know who Dumbledore was in the first place. Let alone his sexuality. What concerns me is adults who read 800-page books about magic schoolboys... and then try to talk to me about it. If I had the slightest interest in homosexuals with powers, I'd be a Republican.” IfsKnowsGivingTryingFirstsTwoBookWantedInterestMagicRepublicanGayPagesAdultsConcernSexualityHomosexualTalk To Me Author:Bill Maher
“There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.” ThinkingFeelsTryingI CanBookSometimesCertainInterestRealizingSituationWrittenLandPagesTopicsLapFilesProgressionLinearGreat Book Author:Jodi Picoult
“There's a Russia angle to all this, because remember, we don't have Donald Trump's tax returns. He did a very - relative summary, 104 page campaign financial disclosure. One year of tax returns, reportedly - we've seen the pictures, 12,000 pages. And tax returns are replete with his foreign interests, including, perhaps, his Russian interests. That may be the reason he doesn't want to turn over his taxes.” WantYearsMayReasonRememberTurnsInterestReturnTrumpTaxesPagesIncludingFinancialCampaignsRussiaRelativeAngleDisclosureSummaryTax Returns Author:Norman L. Eisen
“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.” WantTwoBookInterestSecretMinutesFieldsExpressionPagesReflectionRomanticDepthTheatreIntimateStalkingHopeless RomanticLiterary LoveDepth Of Field Book:Vintage Ondaatje Source: Vintage Ondaatje
“I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.” WorldUniverseInterestDealsMankindCoupleHorrorPagesMurderTiredBeastly Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd start the whole process all over again. I think I just liked buying new notebooks.” ThinkingWritingWholeThreeProcessInterestLosesMonthsTenPagesBuyingJournalNotebookThree Months Book:Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel Source: Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel