Nineteen Quotes

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.