Archon Tahril Quotes & Sayings

The labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. — Lee Child

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers? — Bill Cosby

The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to deal with. The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it would be pleasant thing to be laid out to the sun and the stars, and to be so promptly, neatly, and openly picked and cleansed; to be made one with Nature and become a common component of a landscape. — Karen Blixen

I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise we would never have won. — Christopher Lee

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle. — Harry Houdini

As for seeing the town, the idea never occurred to him, for he was the sort of Englishman who, on his travels, gets his servant to do his sightseeing for him. — Jules Verne

Squabbling over too little is just human nature. But it says a great deal about a person, what they do with abundance. — Tessa Dare

Certainly, if the world ever is saved, it'll be by somebody young enough not to know that it can't be done. — Donald Hamilton

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. — Plato