Lindon Quotes & Sayings

I'm not sure what they mean by "revenge is a dish best served cold." But I do know this - nobody's ever satisfied with a single helping.

- Heman Lindon, McPherson, Kansas ( a character in Heels Over Head ) — Clay G. Small

Diversity is wisdom. — Sheila Renee Parker

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence. — David Lloyd George

If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice, .. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France. — Alain Juppe

One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for President [Lindon] Johnson in Saigon. This book is about the inevitably of screwing up when a country takes on a war with so little understanding of the country they are fighting. — George Packer

I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight. — Janette Rallison

Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain. — J.K. Rowling

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself? — Francois Rabelais

At that moment, I wished I were the wind, free to dance across her flesh, seep through her clothing, and explore the forbidden depths of her body beneath. — Sean Holloway

Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied. — Carol Muske-Dukes

You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not."
"You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed.
He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that. — Holly Black

Are you going to put some clothes on?" she blurted out.
"No. Are you going to take yours off?"
"No."
"Right. Of course not. — Elle Kennedy

I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on. — Claire Denis

Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest. — Swami Vivekananda

You empower everything you complain about. You strengthen the negative things you speak of. And you energize the problems you vocalize. — Robin S. Sharma