Carlisle Quotes & Sayings

I hope your week gets better! If not it's almost over so no worries! — Kimberly Carlisle

I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange jumpsuit, cozying up to a great big girl named Beulah — Kate Carlisle

Come on-I'll see you back to your room and the estimable Martha."
She put her hand in his and let him draw her to her feet.
"Tomorrow ... don't worry," he murmured, as he ushered her back through the darker side of the snug. "I'll be waiting in Carlisle to fall in behind the coach when you go past." Through the dimness he met her eyes. "I won't lose you."
Her lips softly curved. "I didn't imagine you would. — Stephanie Laurens

My old mind hadn't been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I'd brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle's compassion and Esme's devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that. — Stephenie Meyer

When we wake, it's officially Christmas Eve."
"Good. Because I have something special to give you."
She turned over her shoulder and cocked an eyebrow. "Thought you just did."
He chuckled, a deep and throaty sound. "Something else. — Lisa Carlisle

I'm into you, Gina." He studied her face, her parted lips, and then pulled his gaze away. "But we can never be together. — Lisa Carlisle

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days. — Kitty Carlisle

Never allow your game to be played by someone else's rules. The game you create is the reality you wish to live and that will be the love you do or do not endure. — A.H. Carlisle III

And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with the message from his subconscious still echoing in his brain: The Ramans do everything in threes. — Arthur C. Clarke

With all of the choices we have in this world, why would you ever spend your time running behind one that is not even willing to walk towards you. Stop wasting time with those who have other priorities, you too have options. -AHCIII — A.H. Carlisle III

What treasures he would give for one night with her. To watch her strip off one of her vintage dresses, revealing her satin skin inch by inch just for him. — Lisa Carlisle

I didn't freak out. I immediately reached around my back, pulling the gun out of my waistband leveling it at the man's face. Well, maybe that was me freaking out. Who knows? — Natalie Carlisle

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. — Carlisle Floyd

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her. — Stephenie Meyer

People say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy. — Molly Looby

You could inspire any man to do a number of things. — Lisa Carlisle

When it comes to soul, Dennis Marcellino redefines the term. His remarkable tone and feel are full of passion and soulful expression. — Bob Carlisle

The five statutes loomed above the crowd, still and timeless. The last light of the setting sun cast an eerie glow around them. When she fixed her gaze on Mason's stone form, her heart thumped. She scanned every inch of his silhouette, wondering about the spark of life within the stone that would animate him into flesh. A warm-blooded male with a heated touch and sensuous lips that made her melt. — Lisa Carlisle

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up. — Kitty Carlisle

Carlisle: "I've seen vampire venom work miracles, but there are conditions that even venom cannot overcome." — Stephenie Meyer

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth. — John Griffin Carlisle

Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption. — Bob Carlisle

By the time you get to be my age it's like you're having breakfast every fifteen minutes. — Kitty Carlisle Hart

Integrity is simply doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do...not the easiest path, but the right one. — Robert S. Carlisle

What a surprising turn of events. He'd only come out here to question the intruder he'd spotted while watching from his stone repose. Instead, he'd found a gargoyle who needed a place to stay. Not what he'd expected. — Lisa Carlisle

Bryce carried her to the bed and lowered her onto it. He crawled to her with a predatory look, leaving her no doubt she was the prey. "I promise to make you feel good. — Lisa Carlisle

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse. — Belinda Carlisle

In this world we're just beginning to understand the miracle of living. — Belinda Carlisle

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. — Belinda Carlisle

With a kiss you can strip me defenseless. — Belinda Carlisle

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years. — Belinda Carlisle

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of
Oh my love, since that day
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain — Belinda Carlisle

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star. — Belinda Carlisle

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me. — Belinda Carlisle

With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in every heart that knows we can live in a perfect world in shades of Michelangelo I hear songs of children echo in the sky I hear songs of children a tomorrow so bright! — Belinda Carlisle

Well, that was embarrassing. There was nothing wrong with talking to the voices in my head
unless everyone else was listening in. — Kate Carlisle

Mr. Carlisle became brisk. "Baby," he said, as Napoleon might have said to one of his Marshals when instructing him in his latest plan of campaign ... — P.G. Wodehouse

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do. — Carlisle Floyd

A lot of the signs are evident before the lies start and the actions deviate. Many women do not even want to hear the truth — A.H. Carlisle III

Another five grand on top of the twenty-five large from Carlisle. I vowed not to tell Kiddiot. Knowing him, he would definitely demand I buy him more cat toys. The — David Freed

What did you tell me, Jesse? Sure Jake, Stephanie will do exactly what you tell her. Sure Jake, protecting her will be a piece of cake. "
Snorting in disbelief, he added, "Being at war is safer compared to this shit, and it's a hell of a lot easier than looking after your girlfriend. — Nina D'Angelo

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons. — Carlisle Floyd

We thought we were invincible and Dominic proved us all wrong, - Jesse Carlisle — Nina D'Angelo

When you live among piranhas, you find truth and goodness an asset. — Lisa Carlisle

You don't have to pose," she said. "I want to capture you as you were. Forget I'm even here."
He gave her a lopsided grin. "It's impossible not to notice you. — Lisa Carlisle

An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance. — Kate Carlisle

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. — Carlisle Floyd

So how's the putrid pile of caca doing? — Kate Carlisle

Never waste, never worry — Kate Carlisle

If there are trust issues during the dating period, marriage is not going to solve it! #Tip — A.H. Carlisle III

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically. — Carlisle Floyd

She shivered as a blustery wind rushed past. She'd made a mistake in returning to the city. She should've stayed in the castle with Antoine. She'd be warm in his arms right now, instead of being held prisoner. — Lisa Carlisle

One less happy practice Vanbrugh introduced with Carlisle at Castle Howard was that of razing estate villages and moving the occupants elsewhere if they were deemed to be insufficiently picturesque or intrusive. At Castle Howard, Vanbrugh cleared away not only an existing village but also a church and the ruined castle from which the new house took its name. Soon villages up and down the country were being leveled to make way for more extensive houses and unimpeded views. It was almost as if a rich person couldn't begin work on a grand house until he had thoroughly disrupted at least a few dozen menial lives. Oliver — Bill Bryson

Cameron's mind registered what the rest of him already knew. He was insane about this woman, and he'd do anything to be with her, anything to protect her. She'd become his world. How it had happened, he didn't know, but it had. — Lisa Carlisle

You wanted to see me?" she asked after shutting the door. She remained where she was, not daring to move any closer.
He turned his gaze from the fire crackling over the logs to face her. Those dark eyes scanned her from head to foot and when they reached her once again, they gleamed with unmistakable hunger.
"Take off your clothes," he said calmly. — Lisa Carlisle

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners. — Carlisle Floyd

No longer was she living moment to moment in a hyper-vigilant state, she was reminded of more primal needs. She was a female in the arms of a very potent male. — Lisa Carlisle

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire. — Bruce Beresford

The more time I spend with you lot, the more I wonder if you forget to shift your brains from stone," she added with a grin.
Gavin laughed. "Not our brains. Our cocks maybe. — Lisa Carlisle

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that. — Kitty Carlisle

Carlisle wondered if it was still possible for him to live alongside civilization and yet be somewhat apart from it. Find a slice of quiet in the layers of noise, conduct a rain into the noise now and then for some work, take the gold and run like hell back to the quiet place....Flight was no good. You couldn't escape it, whatever 'it' was. — Robert James Waller

In decades past, the three clans of the island - tree witches, gargoyles, and wolves, had cloaked their land with many layers of protection. Their combined magic had created such a powerful force it had remained undetected by human technology. When a feud erupted between the witches and gargoyles twenty-five years ago it led to a division of land. Without reinforcements from the clans' combined magic, the protection seeped away. — Lisa Carlisle

I should tell you something about what happens after I play."
"What's that?"
He pulled her back into his arms. "I get excited... — Lisa Carlisle

He was a God who observed without intervening in this hell he created"
-Carlisle — David Morrell

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies. — Kitty Carlisle

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. — Carlisle Floyd

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time. — Kitty Carlisle

It's true that Doug and Anna live in their own universe, complete with its own language. Like Tuna McAlpine, the Crabtrees eschew the term "conventional" farming, preferring "chemically dependent." Doug can tell you exactly why. "We've been practicing agriculture foe approximately twelve thousand years and using poisons in great quantities for just sixty of them," he reasons, " so to label that 'convention' is a huge insult to eleven thousand nine hundred and forty years of agriculture. — Liz Carlisle

Carlisle has a theory ... he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses. — Stephenie Meyer

Better undead than dead. — Lisa Carlisle

Opera is given so little attention in the national press. — Carlisle Floyd

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle. — Douglas Alexander

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. — Carlisle Floyd

He IS just a normal boy. — Molly Looby

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. — Carlisle Floyd

Nobody's having any babies, yet," Mason said, spreading both arms wide. Still pale after the onslaught of questions, he managed to smirk at his brothers and add, "Although I'm enjoying the practice of making them. — Lisa Carlisle

A cross between two species. Doomed with the thirst of the undead for human blood, yet tormented by the gargoyle drive to protect them. — Lisa Carlisle

Your life is very different from mine. For one, you can transform into a wolf."
"I can," she agreed. "And you live with a vampire and gargoyle. That's not the typical human way, is it? — Lisa Carlisle

When you marry the one whom your soul loves, you die to self so that you live for your partner. - AHC III — A.H. Carlisle III

In my head, Carlisle's kind eyes did not judge me. I knew that he would forgive me for this horrible act that I would do. Because he loved me. Because he thought I was better than I was. And he would still love me, even as I now proved him wrong. — Stephenie Meyer

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras. — Kitty Carlisle

And I thought how there were so many things in life. There was betrayal and disease and murder, and there was devotion and love and pity. And I did not want to die.No, I couldn't understand and I thought how nobody understands and that is why it is so wonderful.And I had my struggle and I had my suffering and I was rich with struggle and rich with suffering for I was rich with life . — Helen Grace Carlisle

I'd be careful about watching me too closely."
"Why?" She smiled to match the sassy tone in her voice.
The smirk that had lingered on his face dropped away, replaced by a serious expression. "You might not like what you see. — Lisa Carlisle

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do. — Kitty Carlisle

I'm sorry, darling, but it's the only face I've got. — Kate Carlisle

I told my brothers what happened. Are you ready to come meet them?"
She straightened. "Aye."
"I warn you," he teased in an attempt to lighten the mood. "They're big, burly bampots. — Lisa Carlisle

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star. — Kitty Carlisle

Until you have experienced the true love of God, you will continue to accept his or her version of love and call it faith. #ChooseToWin — A.H. Carlisle III

So, okay. He was basically an amalgamation of every redheaded man to ever turn my crank (and how!). And he lived in a popular gay resort town, which meant the chances were above average that he might actually be interested. Watching him trot lightly down those stairs to the beach, I realized what my objective this summer would be.
Agent Carlisle, your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to find out which of these residences belongs to Mr. Strawberry-Blond Hunka Burnin' Love and convince him to do you on every horizontal surface - and against a few of the vertical ones. — Amelia C. Gormley

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader. — John Griffin Carlisle

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive. — John Griffin Carlisle

The tree witches kept to themselves, a self-sufficient coven specializing in certain skills. The witches sang, played music, and danced at the gatherings around the fire, but nothing like what she'd experienced when the gargoyles transformed. After the first night, she was hooked.It was a risk to return but one she was willing to take. She'd ventured to that different world to hear the unique groups, especially to watch the guitarist with hair as black as midnight. — Lisa Carlisle

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there. — Kitty Carlisle

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so. — Carlisle Floyd

Have learned in life, there will always be some things that we really want but they are just not ever going to surface in our life. We have to take a bow and keep it moving because you never know the reason why it was not put there. It could simply be because there is something better just waiting. Never chase after people or things, unless it is a common effort. Patience is a virtue, wasted time is a something you will never get back. - AHCIII — A.H. Carlisle III

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story. — Carlisle Floyd

She wore leopard-skin leggings, a tight black turtleneck sweater and sparkly red heels. I don't make this stuff up. — Kate Carlisle

It's not your fault," Carlisle comforted me with a chuckle. "It could happen to anyone."
"Could," I repeated. "But it usually just happens to me. — Stephenie Meyer

The ocean stands for God, the sole substance, and individual beings are like waves - which are modes of the sea. Each wave has its own shape that it holds for a certain time, but the wave is not separate from the sea and cannot be conceived to exist independently of it. Of course, this is only a metaphor; unlike an infinite God, an ocean has boundaries, and moreover the image of the sea represents God only in the attributes of extension. But maybe we can also imagine the mind of God - that is to say, the infinite totality of thinking - as like the sea, and the thoughts of finite beings as like waves that arise and then pass away. — Clare Carlisle

She tore her eyes from his abs and gave in to the temptation to look further down. Over his kilt her eyes wandered and stopped, speculating on the promising bulge beneath the blue tartan.
"Hope you like what you see... — Lisa Carlisle