Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#or

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #or




That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as irresistible as a tritium bomb. ↗


— Arthur C. Clarke


#passivity #world #music

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. ↗


— Karen Marie Moning


#labels #promises #reality #silence #soul

In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever. ↗


— Russell T. Davies


#doctor-who #love #love-story #rose #rose-tyler

He smiled. "How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear I am quite popular. ↗


— Meredith Duran


#meredith-duran #romance #humor

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret! ↗


— Elizabeth Gaskell


#north-and-south #thornton #love

...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. ↗


— Shulamith Firestone


#love

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ↗


— Anne Taylor Fleming


#love #marriage #work #love

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. ↗


— Augustine of Hippo


#glory #jesus #love #love

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. ↗


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #literature #reading #humor

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington ↗


— Julia Quinn


#julia-quinn #marriage #humor






back to top