Louis Sachar Quotes

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.