Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 98 | Just Great DataBase

    But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small. Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure 63 She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five 62 A person does not belong to a…

  • Lord of the Flies Essays

    Lord of the Flies Lord of the flies – appearance vs reality could be when the boys think they see a monster, when it is a trapped parachute. Also them generally imagining ‘the beast’ from nothing , out of fear their minds run riot and create unreal dangers. fate vs free will,, i suppose could…

  • Quotes – Page 61 | Just Great DataBase

    Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. William Shakespeare Macbeth 139 Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents. Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Professor Faber 139 I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 38 | Just Great DataBase

    Lady Middleton resigned herself… Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 6 I will not allow books to prove anything. Jane Austen Persuasion 6 It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten…

  • Quotes – Page 153 | Just Great DataBase

    All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed. Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 23 We…

  • The Things They Carried Summary

    The novel comprises of twenty two chapters that are not chronological, although they are all intertwined. The author is also a character in the book by the name of Tim O’Brien. The story gives an account of soldiers of the Alpha Company, after they return from war in Vietnam.  In the first chapter- “The Things…

  • Quotes – Page 531 | Just Great DataBase

    he smiled like a weather man, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 0 I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,” said Darcy, “of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.” “My fingers,”…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 126 | Just Great DataBase

    Te veo preocupado, hijo mío,y como abatido. Recobra el ánimo.Nuestra fiesta ha terminado. Los actores,como ya te dije, eran espíritusy se han disuelto en el aire, en aire leve,y, cual la obra sin cimientos de esta fantasía,las torres con sus nubes, los regios palacios,los templos solemnes, el inmenso mundoy cuantos lo hereden, todo se disiparáe,…

  • 1984 Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    1984 and Brave New World Thesis Statement After going through both the pieces of literature, it transpires that both differences and similarities exist between Brave New World and 1984. They are both prophetic novels, they were both written in turbulent times, both suffering changes that could lapse the future of the world… 1 235 words…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 11 | Just Great DataBase

    He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 12 Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed,” cried the phantom, “not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for…