Clent Quotes & Sayings

... and I'll be happy here and happy there, full
of tea and tears — Frank O'Hara

Clent sat up with impressive if graceless promptness, snatched his wig from a bedknob, and slammed it on his head back to front. Only then did he go about the business of actually waking. — Frances Hardinge

I'm a business person at heart. — Desiree Rogers

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd. — Nicholas Tharcher

So I'm in the American Secret Service? Damn."
"It was all reported in the press the next day. — Douglas Preston

You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable.
-Eponymous Clent — Frances Hardinge

Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers. — Rita Rudner

I generally find,' Clent murmured after a pause, 'that it is best to treat borrowed time the same way as borrowed money. Spend it with panache, and try to be somewhere else when it runs out.'
'And when we get found, Mr. Clent, when the creditors and bailiffs come after us and it's payment time ... '
' ... then we borrow more, madam, at a higher interest. We embark on a wilder gamble, make a bigger promise, tell a braver story, devise a more intricate lie, sell the hides of imaginary dragons to desperate men, climb to even higher and more precarious ground ... and later, of course, our fall and catastrophe will be all the worse, but later will be our watchword, Mosca. We have nothing else - but we can at least make later later. — Frances Hardinge

But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" murmured Kohlrabi.
Because I'd been hording words for years, buying them from peddlers and carving them secretly on bits of bark so I wouldn't forget them, and then he turned up using words like "epiphany" and "amaranth." Because I heard him talking in the marketplace, laying out sentences like a merchant rolling out rich silks. Because he made words and ideas dance like flames and something that was damp and dying came alive in my mind, the way it hadn't since they burned my father's books. Because he walked into Chough with stories from exciting places tangled around him like maypole streamers ... "
Mosca shrugged.
"He's got a way with words. — Frances Hardinge

In my opinion, patriotism is liberty. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Where is your sense of patriotism?
I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched. — Frances Hardinge

Mathews, 1967; Schlagal, 2002; Schlagal, 2007; Smith, 2002).
Many phonics, spelling, and vocabulary programs are characterized by explicit skill
instruction, a systematic scope and sequence, and repeated practice. — Donald R. Bear

Clent, however, suppressed any sense of pity without the slightest difficulty. His brain was busy with the icy clockwork of calculation. If only this young woman's fears were justified! Beamabeth Marlebourne would be unlikely to threaten anybody, locked away inside the Luck's cell for the rest of her life. Such a fate had a tempting poetry to it too, given that she really was the Luck of Toll, and had been all her life. — Frances Hardinge

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading. — Alonzo Church

Being held down and secured just made me all the harder. I'll probably be speaking in tongues by the time this is over. — John Ellison

I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives. — Cherie Blair

I am stronger as part of the Jedi Order than I could ever be alone. — Charles Soule

She did not hate Clent for the way he had spoken. For most of her life she had been at the mercy of stronger and more powerful people who cared nothing for her. She had always been afraid, and her fear had made her angry. — Frances Hardinge