Achjamen Quotes & Sayings

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid.
- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532 — Anne Rice

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book. — Joshua Foer

The old Televisions had an off switch. — Chris Bachelder

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise. — Herbert Croly

12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. — Anonymous

Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger. — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

I don't normally watch myself on the telly. — Frank Bruno

Combine truth and invention for the sake of a closer approach to reality — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth. — John Mahoney

A free press needs to be a respected press. — Tom Stoppard

We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending. — David Harsanyi

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. — Holly Black

Sebastian glanced around. "Raises my hackles, though" - another flash of lightning - "almost like it's ... haunted." Sebastian gets a cookie. — Kresley Cole