Lector Quotes & Sayings

You can't have a motion without a debate. — Hugh Dalton

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing. — Hiro Murai

Some truce," Daniel said, "Eighteen days of others trying to kill her. — Lauren Kate

Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication. And besides that, it's fucking dorky. Mae exhaled — Dave Eggers

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can. — Thomas Harris

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still. — Anthony Hopkins

But caveat lector: life is waiting, and to read about someone who writes about life is getting far from it. Reading Schopenhauer when he tells you to watch out for reading too many books is already getting far from it, and at this moment you are reading someone who is telling you about how Schopenhauer said that you should not let reading come between you and life. In philosophy, the infinite regress is a sign that someone has made a mistake in logic. In ordinary life, it is a sign that someone is hiding from reality. — Clive James

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night. — Anthony Hopkins

There's no need to rush, Arch Lector. That's the trouble with good legs, you tend to run around too much. If you have trouble moving, on the other hand, you don't move until you damn well know it's time. — Joe Abercrombie

He seemed to read her thoughts easily, as if she were a treasured volume he had paged through a thousand times. — Lisa Kleypas

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He was so pretty I wanted to frame him and put him on my nightstand in a totally non-creepy, non-Hannibal Lector skin-suit-wearing kind of way. — Tara Sivec

But caveat lector: we do not read the Bible in order to reduce our lives to what is convenient to us or manageable by us - we want to get in on the great invisibles of the Trinity, the soaring adorations of the angels, the quirky cragginess of the prophets, and ... Jesus. — Eugene H. Peterson

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know. — Dean Koontz

I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East. — Rand Paul

Yeah, but what does that even mean ... heaven? Because see, I need to be able to put him somewhere, Zo. In my head, I mean. I need to be able to close my eyes and picture him and know he's okay. And just saying the word heaven doesn't help that much. Because like what is heaven, exactly? And where is it? And what do you do there? — Barbara Park

It means that Rama was born on 10 January in 5114 BCE at precisely 12.30 pm.' 'And — Ashwin Sanghi

We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place. — Nalo Hopkinson

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. — Allegra Goodman

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character. — Kevin Smith

I don't like to talk to people, because I can't express myself satisfactorily. I don't say the things I mean. — Greta Garbo

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane. — Jared Harris