anything Quotes

″When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.″

“The boy looks at me. I would’ve expected his bright eyes to look dimmer in the night, but instead they seem to reflect the light coming from the windows above us. He’s amused. “Who said anything about you , sweetheart?”

“In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of what anything is or how it came to be. Life is a mystery. ”

″... But if there’s a real war why don’t they do anything? ... If they wanted to rescue us they could do it.”

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

“Anything that causes you to overreact or under react can control you, and often does.”

“I never get to do anything!”

“When a man is very good and knows a great deal, he is elected president. They have torch-light processions and bands, and everyone makes speeches. I used to think I might perhaps be a president, but I never thought about being an earl. I didn’t know anything about being an earl.”

“Nobody has time to note anything scandalous about Johnny’s underpants before he’d pulled up his trousers again, spun round, and butted George in the stomach. George doubled up, only to get an uppercut from the back of Johnny’s head, and then a left hook to the chin which adjusted his beating by ninety degrees.”

″...you are somewhat less than much, and only a little more than anything.”

“I’ve seen a lot o’ fellows that were always poring over books, and when they came to try to do anything, they were no better than baboons!”