Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 505 | Just Great DataBase

    It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. Keep calm, they said on television. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 It was an accident, said Cora. No such thing, said Rita.…

  • Quotes – Page 154 | Just Great DataBase

    There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living. Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God 23 Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had…

  • The Metamorphosis Quotes

    I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. The Metamorphosis 1668 As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. The Metamorphosis 452 Was he an animal, that music could…

  • Quotes – Page 29 | Just Great DataBase

    Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! Arthur Miller The…

  • Quotes – Page 367 | Just Great DataBase

    Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking. Arthur C. Clarke Childhood’s End 2 Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor… Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 2 I would not…

  • The Catcher in the Rye Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

    He was one of those guys that think they’re being a pansy if they don’t break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield 70 I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 20 | Just Great DataBase

    Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted? Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 23 In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 23 But to appear happy…

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

    Mostly, I’d just like to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1 Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with…

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 10 | Just Great DataBase

    La scarsa fiducia che ha nel proprio giudizio gli aveva impedito di ritenere vera una cosa tanto importante per lui, ma la grande fiducia che ha nel mio ha reso tutto più facile Pride and Prejudice 2 Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.…

  • Sex Quotes – Page 4 | Just Great DataBase

    زد على ذلك أن هذه الأحلام، إلى فصاحتها، كانت جميلة. لقد أغفل فرويد هذا الجانب في نظريته عن الأحلام. فالحلم ليس فقط بلاغاً (بلاغاً مرموزاً عند الاقتضاء) بل هو أيضاً نشاط جمالي ولعبة للخيال. وهذه اللعبة هي بحد ذاتها قيمة. فالحلم هو البرهان على أن التخيل وتصوّر ما ليس له وجود، هو إحدى الحاجات الأساسية…