Book Quotes
 

Occasionally, while reading, you come across a profound sentence you simply need to share. Well, here goes …


And one I liked for it's simplicity, a trait that make the Earthsea books so fascinating.

Nice thread Arhu.I wish I could remember quotes from book but I usually forgot all of them few weeks after I finished book.

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

One I always found inspiring -

"Creation is an act of sheer will."
- John Hammond in Jurassic Park

Now granted his creations were alive and people, but I like th meaning nonetheless!

I been looking through my discworld collection and I remembered some of my favorite quotes.

"Today the city, tomorrow the world. Tomorrow the world, and - " he calculated quickly, "on Friday the universe! Good, that leaves the weekend free…"Sourcery

"Today Is A Good Day For Someone Else To Die!" feet of clay

"multiple exclamation marks are the sign of a diseased mind" Eric

"Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned." Small gods

I really like this thread I am sorry it isn't more popular.So I am going to ressurect it with some First law quotes:

From the best book ever written.

Who (actually) wrote it?

Regarding the 2nd quote, what is its context?

Pioneer of computing Ada Lovelace, from a collection of her private letters, Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers:

Laws of Thermodynamics
1. You cannot win.
2. You cannot break even.
3. You cannot stop playing the game.
—- My university physics book, unattributed quote (maybe the authors made it up?)

"If you think you've gotten a good deal from a Deveel, first count your fingers, then your limbs, then your relatives."
— Asprin's Myth books (which have quite a few great quotes in their chapter headers)

"To me truth is precious…I should rather be right and stand alone than to run with the multitude and be wrong…. The holding of the views herein set forth has already won for me the scorn and contempt and ridicule of some of my fellowmen. I am looked upon as being odd, strange, peculiar…. But truth is truth and though all the world reject it and turn against me, I will cling to truth still."
— Some great thinker defending an unpopular truth?
— Nope! Charles Silvester de Ford, trying to prove the earth is flat.

"And further back, way back: my 1st grade teacher writing FNORD on the blackboard, while a wheel with a spiral design turned and turned on his desk, turned and turned, and his voice droned on, IF YOU DON'T SEE THE FNORD IT CAN'T EAT YOU, DON'T SEE THE FNORD, DON'T SEE THE FNORD…"
— The Illuminati books

"…the Law [of Fives] is: All phenomena are directly or indirectly related to the number five, and this relationship can always be demonstrated, given enough ingenuity on the part of the demonstrator."
—- Hagbard Celine in the Illuminati books

Stay Alert
Trust No One
Keep Your Laser Handy
—- The Paranoia rulebooks

"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it's not for the timid."
—- Q in Star Trek: Next Generation, which I'm sure got novelized at some point <ahem>

"Sometimes knowing gives no advantage whatsoever. Sometimes it only means sharing the danger."
— Siuan Sanche in Jordan's _Wheel of Time_

And, as long as we're into holy books…

The Heavens are telling the glory of God;
and the firmament proclaims His handiwork.
Day to day pours forth speech,
and night to night declares knowledge.
— Psalm 19:1-4

“In the dark that followed - Lucy said; "where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I left that place because it was intolerant of rain. Now, we are here in a place where there are no trees and there is only rain. And I intend to leave this place - because it is intolerant of light. Somewhere - there must be somewhere where darkness and light are reconciled. So I am starting a rumour, here and now, of yet another world. I don't know when it will present itself - I don't know where it will be. But - as with all those other worlds now past when it is ready, I intend to go there.”
― Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage

“…with every new manoeuvre, the light was growing dimmer--fading by numbers as well as strength--and the sound could no longer be heard, but only the pulse of it--seen going out in the darkness--losing its edges--caving in at its centre--webbing, now, as if a spider was spinning against the rain--until the last few strands of brightness fell--and were extinguished--silenced and removed from life and from all that lives forever.
And the bell tolled--but the ark, as ever, was adamant. Its shape had taken on a voice. And the voice said: no.”
― Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage

“Complaints about reality are immature.”
― Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage

Still waiting to read this one but the Polish to English will be out in 2015. Here is the write doing a short clip from the book. There are five more clips he did to promote the book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6QYPL4BagE

Lots of wisdom in the last line. The German translation left out the word "absolutely", which made for a nice understatement. Don't know how it's in the original though.