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Quotes About Challenge

Hope was elusive, and a total bitch.
~ Jill Shalvis
I figured you'd come here and try to do something stupid." "I did nothing of the kind." "You don't consider ducking beneath that yellow tape stupid?" "Only if I'd gotten caught.
~ Jill Shalvis
Seriously, why are you here? To drive me crazy?" "Well, that does seem fair, since you drove me there a long time ago.
~ Jill Shalvis
The last guy who told me what I can't do is still walking funny." That gave him a smile. He was a sick, sick man, but damn, he loved her sass.
~ Jill Shalvis
he'd always felt that life was worth living, fears and all, that if he didn't go for it, then why bother?
~ Jill Shalvis
A guy's definition of baseball: you don't have to buy the other team dinner to get game.
~ Jill Shalvis
Mothertrucker
~ Jill Shalvis
SonOfABumblebee
~ Jill Shalvis
There are people my age competing at the Olympics and I still try to enter Walmart through the exit-only door.
~ Jill Shalvis
I think of my work as this kind of holy trinity — funny, dirty, sad. It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny. It's really easy to do sad, you just put on some sad music and write dramatically — everybody can do that. It's really hard to get dirty right.
~ Jill Soloway
Uh oh. Women and their ideas scare me.
~ Unknown
Nothing changes until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing.
~ Jim Burns
I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.
~ Jim Butcher
If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
~ Jim Butcher
You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.
~ Jim Butcher
And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.
~ Jim Butcher
Bite me, faerie fruitcake.
~ Jim Butcher
Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.
~ Jim Butcher
Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!
~ Jim Butcher
Screw up my life? He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow. He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, Do your worst.
~ Jim Butcher
You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?
~ Jim Butcher
The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.
~ Jim Butcher
Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.
~ Jim Butcher
My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?
~ Jim Butcher