Thanks Quotes - Page 9

• Most importantly, it´s in giving thanks.

  Lauren Conrad

  Giving

  4 Copy quote

• Thanks to April,” she whispered, “you have the wedding you’ve dreamed about ever since you were a little girl.” Dean’s boom of laughter was one more reason she loved this man with all her heart.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Girl, Laughter, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married and was, in fact, quite happy to break up with her live-in boyfriend, whom she replaced with an imaginary boyfriend named Ricky. The last time she was asked out by a successful bachelor, Amy hesitated before saying, ‘Thanks for asking, but I’m really not into white guys right now.

  David Sedaris

  Father, Successful, White

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Make-up? What happened? You look almost female." "Thanks. You look almost straight.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Thank You, Female, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in a shawl. 'How do I look?' 'Like the ugliest shanky girl I’ve ever seen,' Minho responded. 'You better thank the gods above you were born a dude.' 'Thanks.

  James Dashner

  Girl, Looks, Faces

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.397, Scholastic UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan. "Thanks a lot," he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves, tossed them at her feet, and stormed away. Finn let out a sigh as he gazed after his brother. "You know, my parents really should have stopped with me.

  Kate Brian

  Brother, Should Have, Feet

  Kate Brian (2008). “Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many... somethings. So, thanks.

  Nora Ephron

  Communication, Odd Things, Want

  "Fictional character: Kathleen Kelly". "You've Got Mail", www.imdb.com. 1998.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I used to be (talk about miracles). Then something comes up, and I overreact and blame and sulk, and it feels like I haven't made any progress at all. But it turns out I'm less of a brat than before, and I hit the reset button much sooner, shake it off, and get my sense if humor back.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Self, Reset Button

  4 Copy quote

• Oh it's a pebble... But it's a really nice pebble Dad thanks.

  Angie Sage

  Dad, Nice, Pebbles

  Angie Sage (2012). “Magyk: Septimus Heap”, p.62, A&C Black

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.

  Ally Carter

  Dad, Hot, Credit

  4 Copy quote

• A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

  Cassandra Clare

  Garden, Thinking, Italian

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution,and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you." "Thanks.You're very kind.

  Marie Lu

  Thank You, Kindness, Dying

  9 Copy quote

• You were right, Hale. It was a bad job. It was a bad call. You were right to leave." "Kat..." Hale tried to reach for her, but even in the sand, Kat was quick and sure on her feet, and she moved nimbly away, leaving Hale with nothing but a fistful of salty air. "Thanks for coming back and helping me find her and all, but..." She looked at Gabrielle, who stood leaning against Simon, still bruised and almost broken. " I think I've got to take it from here.".... She was sure right up until the point when Hale said, "No.

  Ally Carter

  Jobs, Thinking, Air

  Ally Carter (2012). “Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals”, p.103, Hachette UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous American poet: 'You Walt Whitman-ing, Edna St. Vincent Millay! Go Emily Dickinson your mom!' 'Thanks for the advice, you pathetic piece of E.E. Cummings, but I think I'm gonna pass.' 'You Robert Frost-ing Nikki Giovanni! Get a life, nerd. You're a virgin.' 'Hey bro, you need to go outside and get some fresh air into you. Or a girlfriend.' I need to get a girlfriend into me? I think that shows a fundamental lack of comprehension about how babies are made.

  John Green

  Mom, Baby, Girlfriend

  4 Copy quote

• Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

  Orson Scott Card

  Liars, Said, Dysentery

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.224, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What's up?" Christian asked. "Need some hairstyling tips?" "Tips you stole from me? No thanks. But I hear you've got a really good bacon meatloaf recipe." It was worth it then and there to see his complete and total surprise. "Since when do you cook?" he finally managed to stammer. "Oh, you know. I'm a Renaissance man. I do it all. Send it if you've got it, and I'll give it a try. I'll let you know if I make any improvements." His smirk returned. "Are you trying to impress a girl?" "With cooking?" I pointed at my face. "This is all it takes, Ozera.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Christian, Men

  14 Copy quote

• Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Europe, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.67, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Mean, Peculiar

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still have a tiny bit of confidence left. Please make sure you stomp on it too while you’re at it. Gods forbid it should actually grow into something called self-esteem. (Fang)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Self Esteem, Love You, Way

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.227, St. Martin's Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Devil, Enough

  10 Copy quote

• I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Thinking, Long

  12 Copy quote

• My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

  David Sedaris

  Feet, Want, Boring

  "The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion". Book by Andy Borowitz, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

  William Shakespeare

  Taming, Taming Of The Shrew, Poorest

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.249

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much like Ina when she has all her embroidery threads arranged to her satisfaction. He looked so pleased that I checked over my shoulder to see if there might be someone else behind me who had drawn his attention.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Father, Attention, Embroidery

  4 Copy quote

• Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace) Boobs? (Julian) Breasts. (Grace) You have very nice breasts. (Julian) Thanks. What about you? (Grace) I have no breasts. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Grace, Ears

  4 Copy quote