Adam Nevill Quotes & Sayings

It's like you said, it's all about P.R. these days. Brand management. Social networking. The corporatization of our own experience. We're all our very own communications directors. But what a load of bollocks it all is when you're faced by something like this. — Adam Nevill

Seb, I'd be the last person to judge you, but what people think they have seen and experienced, and what they have actually seen and experienced, are often the same thing to them. And I'm less inclined to care about the difference than most people are.' That — Adam Nevill

You sure? No one will know we're down there.' 'Makes no difference. The Environment office was closed when we left, and I never called ahead to the Porjus branch. It'll be fine though. — Adam Nevill

But we change, he thought, we change as we are aged by the heartbreaker called life. — Adam Nevill

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am. — Adam Nevill

Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it. — Adam Nevill

A day of fiscal reckoning was nigh. — Adam Nevill

And I extend this to so many of our corporate leaders. I ask you to draw your eye down to our glorious professional leaders in the commercial arena, in this most material of ages. How many of them should be in charge of anything, let alone other people? — Adam Nevill

By a merging and interplay of identities between himself and his beautiful room, he might be preparing a ghost for the future; it had not occurred to him that there might have been a similar merging and coalescence in the past. Oliver Onions The Beckoning Fair One — Adam Nevill

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human. — Adam Nevill

Where did fear end and wonder begin? — Adam Nevill

After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats! — Adam Nevill

From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that hunted and meant murder. — Adam Nevill

The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons. — Adam Nevill

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise. — Adam Nevill

It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria. — Adam Nevill

For Anne and our cub,
for making me and my life less beastly — Adam Nevill

He wanted to roar like a lion on a cement floor. And bellow like a polar bear with yellow fur worn down to pink skin against the tiles of an enclosure in a zoo. The disgust must come. Let it drip down the walls. Scorch the ceiling black with hatred. Liberate rage. — Adam Nevill

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult. — Adam Nevill

Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me. — Adam Nevill

I was full of the same crazy feeling that makes me climb oak trees to the very top branches, stare up at the sky and let go with my hands for a few seconds knowing that if I fall I will die. When — Adam Nevill

He had been committed, absorbed and unthinking. Intentionally, because the story was so good. So good he felt like he'd been damaged by it, permanently. — Adam Nevill

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history. — Adam Nevill

The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria. — Adam Nevill

But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of braying narcissists, that Wild West of disinformation and fraud, that infinite sea of piracy, the great electorate where the constituency of billions voted their approval with a click of a mouse. The internet. It brought governments down and rewrote history ... — Adam Nevill

These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them? — Adam Nevill

He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic. — Adam Nevill

There is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering. — Adam Nevill

But worst of all, he had become incurious. The — Adam Nevill