Calormen Quotes & Sayings

An ambassador is someone who thinks twice before he says nothing" -

attributed to one of India's ambassadors in Argentina at the time. — Tony Leon

God has been with me in my whole career. — Ronald Isley

And there lay the essential differences between reading and rereading, acts that Henry and I were preforming simultaneously. The former had more velocity; the latter had more depth. The former shut out the world in order to focus on the story; the latter dragged in the world in order to assess the story. The former was more fun; the latter was more cynical. But what was remarkable about the latter was that it contained the former: even while, as with the upper half of a set of bifocals, I saw the book through the complicating lens of adulthood, I also saw it through the memory of the first time I'd read it, when it had seemed as swift and pure as the Winding Arrow, the river that divides Calormen from Archenland. — Anne Fadiman

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot. — Bertrand Meyer

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. — Mary Shelley

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. — Charles Simmons

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays. — C.S. Lewis

Oh the sweet air in Narnia! An hour's life there is better than a thousand years in Calormen. — C.S. Lewis

I like my parents," Olivia said.
Sebastian shook his head, "A concept so alien I think it must be unpatriotic. — Julia Quinn

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. — Alexander Smith

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. — Henry David Thoreau

I know that I'm a quirky guy, to say the least. I don't know how easy I am to cast for a network. It hasn't been because I haven't tried. But am I dying to be on a TV show? No. — Elias Koteas

Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more. — Sybil Stanton

You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink. — Lori Lansens

Had your eyes tested?"
"Yeah. My vision's fine. They've done brain scans, too."
"Did they find anything?"
"Nothing."
"Why doesn't that surprise me? — Zathyn Priest