Quip Quotes

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

Kurt Vonnegut

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."

Blaise Pascal

"Look on the bright side,"said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway."

Cassandra Clare

"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."

Kurt Vonnegut

"In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting."

Norman Schwarzkopf

"Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway."

Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

"That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ..."

Les Standiford, Bone Key

"As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone."

Brian Celio

"It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal."

Initially NO, Percipience: Outside the Range of Understood Sense

"I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale."

Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

"Thad: “But this is a boy, and you need to think of your reputation if you’re spending time alone with him—”Ari: ”Learning how to put a man's eye out or take him down at the knees. Very romantic stuff, Thad. Very romantic. Oh, and we also hid a body together, so we're practically engaged."

C.J. Redwine, The Wish Granter

"Well, I can hardly lick champagne off your dazzling personality, now can I?"

Mora Early, Twisted Arrangement

"Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)"

Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees

"Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense"

Nassim Nicholas Taleb