Jenny Marzen made millions of dollars, as opposed to nickels, by writing novels that got seriously reviewed while selling big. Amy had skimmed her first one, a mildly clever thing about a philosophy professor who discovers her husband is cheating on ...
Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so dull, and like the White Queen one had to run so fast to stay where one w...
[T]he more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And is it. He wasn't training us for a calm and orderly world where we could pick and choose when we need to be clever. He was training us for a situation t...
The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness; and prudence, cowardice; generosity, a clever piece of calculation; justice, a wrong; delicacy, pusillanimity; honesty, a mod...
[after Westley rescues her from the lightning quicksand] Buttercup: We'll never succeed. We may as well die here. Westley: No, no. We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. The...
Sweeney Todd: [sung to his razor] You there, my friend... /Come, let me hold you... Mrs. Lovett: [sung] I'm your friend too, Mr. Todd... /If you only knew, Mr Todd... Sweeney Todd: Now, with a sigh / You grow warm in my hand. Mrs. Lovett: [unison] Oo...
Nothing is as deadly as the love of a powerful man.
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
A man without fear, is a man I strive to be.
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
The enemy of man is man, my brother.
God is just a name for our wonder.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.
Nothing shakes the smiling heart.
Be a man and breathe life back into the woman in me.
The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
