Jim Butcher Quotes

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.

When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.

I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

Hell no ... the last thing I understood was when the guy said hello.

I actually got online and went to check my e-mail, and I always look at the top news, and I saw my name and I thought, 'There's got to be another Michelle McCool,' or 'This is a mistake,' or something!

I was like, 'Did I win Roland Garros? What happened?'

So there are ups and downs, but the best is just the looks on people's faces when they meet me for the first time, because I am a real-life, walking, talking giant. It's not every day you see someone like me walking down the street.

I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first 'Cursed Child' preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase 'audible gasps.'

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

I am all astonishment.

My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

A bolt from the blue.

One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing.

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.