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I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was some...
RANSOM RIGGS I must apologize, it seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.
MILLARD IN MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN BY RANSOM RIGGS I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my h...
RANSOM RIGGS Some growers have lost 100% of their crop, a blow from which they may never recover. This is going t...
IAN BALLANTYNE Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while o...
ETHAN PECK![]()
Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the ex...
EDWARD GREY![]()
I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me w...
JOSE RIZAL I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would t...
SUE WHITAKER My family is pretty good friends with the Riggs family,
WILLIAM ANDREWS When I first came back to go to church, my family told me not to discuss politics or my views there....
AMY MOORE I don't think they make men like Ransom Clark anymore.
FRANK LAUMER![]()
...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise ...
JEANIENE FROST![]()
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI "To take back something said without thought, would be like my grandfather and the surviving crew fr...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN![]()
More of your conversation would infect my brain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me...
EDDIE MURRAY![]()
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes...
CHRIS ROCK![]()
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id et...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) [But if that were to happen,] my teammates would not enjoy playing with me, ... They would think I a...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so ...
GENE HACKMAN![]()
My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door sel...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS![]()
I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a...
GEORGE CARLIN![]()
While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind w...
LAILA ALI I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
FRAN DRESCHER Should these losses and cash drain continue, MAS would enter a downward spiral from which it would n...
IDRIS JALA My grandfather used to take me down there and say, 'Why don't they do something with those things?'
KWAME KILPATRICK When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER![]()
I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and ...
PETER CAPALDI They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would nev...
BENEDICT J. GROESCHEL My parents may never recover from the trauma of having to ask me to put my hacking skills to good us...
J.L. LANGLEY Never complain of getting older, it's privilege and opportunity. comparing ourselves with those 'God...
EJUMP SCHIFFLER![]()
I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
CHER With some of my previous relationships, they never really felt right even from the beginning but I p...
RICK SAVAGE![]()
I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate i...
JOSEPHINE HART![]()
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experienc...
JOHN DENVER My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finis...
KARRINE STEFFANS My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would ...
FRANK CROWNINSHIELD I was treated very well. That's important people know that. They never said they would hit me, never...
JILL CARROLL A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest...
MARVIN SAPP My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an account...
GRACE SLICK Riggs: 'You want me to drive?'
Murtaugh: 'No, you're supposed to be suicidal, remember? I'LL dr...
LETHAL WEAPON![]()
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships...
LEE ATWATER![]()
As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I woul...
MATT DAMON My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
ADAM PETTY We would never consider stopping. We told FEMA that even though we would not be pursuing a contract ...
BILL BERRY![]()
Prudence asked further, “Do you not still carry some of the baggage from the place you escaped?”...
JOHN BUNYAN![]()
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two w...
ELVIS COSTELLO My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like th...
JONATHAN ANDERSON![]()
I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to ...
KIRSTEN DUNST I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed...
RANSOM RIGGS We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
RANSOM RIGGS Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of s...
RANSOM RIGGS That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.
RANSOM RIGGS As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do....
RANSOM RIGGS I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed...
RANSOM RIGGS Some days, I would find what seemed like entire family trees, torn from once-treasured albums and du...
RANSOM RIGGS The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappe...
RANSOM RIGGS Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
RANSOM RIGGS I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go t...
RANSOM RIGGS I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid ...
RANSOM RIGGS I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithfu...
RANSOM RIGGS You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every s...
RANSOM RIGGS I just can't fathom this fame thing; I'm a total newbie.
RANSOM RIGGS Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C...
RANSOM RIGGS Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that ...
RANSOM RIGGS I wanted to thank you," I said.
She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funn...
RANSOM RIGGS Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, wher...
RANSOM RIGGS Destiny is for people in books about magical swords.
RANSOM RIGGS Buy one get none free!
RANSOM RIGGS Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.
RANSOM RIGGS He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.
RANSOM RIGGS What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?
RANSOM RIGGS Wait here.
Hell I am. Why?
Because you’re six-five and have green hair and my grandfathe...
RANSOM RIGGS Emma laughed darkly. "It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine."
RANSOM RIGGS Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean y...
RANSOM RIGGS I hope I’ll be able to come home, someday. But there are things I need to do first. I just want yo...
RANSOM RIGGS Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words,"...
RANSOM RIGGS That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than yo...
RANSOM RIGGS Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's h...
RANSOM RIGGS The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.
RANSOM RIGGS I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happe...
RANSOM RIGGS We hadn't spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importan...
RANSOM RIGGS Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.
RANSOM RIGGS When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.
RANSOM RIGGS I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful an...
RANSOM RIGGS Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
RANSOM RIGGS When you're looking through bins of thousands of random, unsorted photos, every hundredth one or...
RANSOM RIGGS Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
RANSOM RIGGS I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
RANSOM RIGGS Teenagers are extremely smart, and if they think for even a second that an author is 'writing do...
RANSOM RIGGS To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable b...
RANSOM RIGGS Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
RANSOM RIGGS ...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everyth...
RANSOM RIGGS But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-ol...
RANSOM RIGGS Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of s...
RANSOM RIGGS Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II,...
RANSOM RIGGS Millard! Who's the prime minister?"
"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?" RANSOM RIGGS
RANSOM RIGGS I must apologize, it seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.
MILLARD IN MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN BY RANSOM RIGGS I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my h...
RANSOM RIGGS Some growers have lost 100% of their crop, a blow from which they may never recover. This is going t...
IAN BALLANTYNE Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while o...
ETHAN PECK
Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the ex... EDWARD GREY
I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me w... JOSE RIZAL I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would t...
SUE WHITAKER My family is pretty good friends with the Riggs family,
WILLIAM ANDREWS When I first came back to go to church, my family told me not to discuss politics or my views there....
AMY MOORE I don't think they make men like Ransom Clark anymore.
FRANK LAUMER
...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise ... JEANIENE FROST
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover. CHARLES BUKOWSKI "To take back something said without thought, would be like my grandfather and the surviving crew fr...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
More of your conversation would infect my brain. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me...
EDDIE MURRAY
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes... CHRIS ROCK
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id et... CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) [But if that were to happen,] my teammates would not enjoy playing with me, ... They would think I a...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so ...
GENE HACKMAN
My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door sel... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a... GEORGE CARLIN
While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind w... LAILA ALI I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
FRAN DRESCHER Should these losses and cash drain continue, MAS would enter a downward spiral from which it would n...
IDRIS JALA My grandfather used to take me down there and say, 'Why don't they do something with those things?'
KWAME KILPATRICK When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER
I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and ... PETER CAPALDI They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would nev...
BENEDICT J. GROESCHEL My parents may never recover from the trauma of having to ask me to put my hacking skills to good us...
J.L. LANGLEY Never complain of getting older, it's privilege and opportunity. comparing ourselves with those 'God...
EJUMP SCHIFFLER
I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me. CHER With some of my previous relationships, they never really felt right even from the beginning but I p...
RICK SAVAGE
I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never. HUNTER S. THOMPSON My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate i...
JOSEPHINE HART
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i... ROBERT KENNEDY I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experienc...
JOHN DENVER My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finis...
KARRINE STEFFANS My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would ...
FRANK CROWNINSHIELD I was treated very well. That's important people know that. They never said they would hit me, never...
JILL CARROLL A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest...
MARVIN SAPP My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an account...
GRACE SLICK Riggs: 'You want me to drive?'
Murtaugh: 'No, you're supposed to be suicidal, remember? I'LL dr...
LETHAL WEAPON
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships... LEE ATWATER
As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I woul... MATT DAMON My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
ADAM PETTY We would never consider stopping. We told FEMA that even though we would not be pursuing a contract ...
BILL BERRY
Prudence asked further, “Do you not still carry some of the baggage from the place you escaped?”... JOHN BUNYAN
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two w... ELVIS COSTELLO My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like th...
JONATHAN ANDERSON
I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to ... KIRSTEN DUNST I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed...
RANSOM RIGGS We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
RANSOM RIGGS Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of s...
RANSOM RIGGS That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.
RANSOM RIGGS As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do....
RANSOM RIGGS I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed...
RANSOM RIGGS Some days, I would find what seemed like entire family trees, torn from once-treasured albums and du...
RANSOM RIGGS The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappe...
RANSOM RIGGS Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
RANSOM RIGGS I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go t...
RANSOM RIGGS I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid ...
RANSOM RIGGS I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithfu...
RANSOM RIGGS You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every s...
RANSOM RIGGS I just can't fathom this fame thing; I'm a total newbie.
RANSOM RIGGS Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C...
RANSOM RIGGS Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that ...
RANSOM RIGGS I wanted to thank you," I said.
She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funn...
RANSOM RIGGS Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, wher...
RANSOM RIGGS Destiny is for people in books about magical swords.
RANSOM RIGGS Buy one get none free!
RANSOM RIGGS Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.
RANSOM RIGGS He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.
RANSOM RIGGS What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?
RANSOM RIGGS Wait here.
Hell I am. Why?
Because you’re six-five and have green hair and my grandfathe...
RANSOM RIGGS Emma laughed darkly. "It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine."
RANSOM RIGGS Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean y...
RANSOM RIGGS I hope I’ll be able to come home, someday. But there are things I need to do first. I just want yo...
RANSOM RIGGS Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words,"...
RANSOM RIGGS That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than yo...
RANSOM RIGGS Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's h...
RANSOM RIGGS The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.
RANSOM RIGGS I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happe...
RANSOM RIGGS We hadn't spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importan...
RANSOM RIGGS Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.
RANSOM RIGGS When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.
RANSOM RIGGS I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful an...
RANSOM RIGGS Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
RANSOM RIGGS When you're looking through bins of thousands of random, unsorted photos, every hundredth one or...
RANSOM RIGGS Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
RANSOM RIGGS I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
RANSOM RIGGS Teenagers are extremely smart, and if they think for even a second that an author is 'writing do...
RANSOM RIGGS To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable b...
RANSOM RIGGS Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
RANSOM RIGGS ...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everyth...
RANSOM RIGGS But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-ol...
RANSOM RIGGS Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of s...
RANSOM RIGGS Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II,...
RANSOM RIGGS Millard! Who's the prime minister?"
"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?"
I do a lot of video games - I have a YouTube channel where I record me playing video games with my f... 
I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun. 
In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen. 
With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluste... 