Quatermain Quotes & Sayings

Quatermain (while climbing down): We are above an abyss such as satan's own, Miss Murray.Pray not to look down.
Mina: And you, Sir, should not look up.You have me at a disadvantage and I trust you'll not misuse our situation. — Alan Moore

Then he allowed himself to strike, like his childhood hero Allan Quatermain, off on that long slow underground stream which bore him on toward the interior of the dark continent where he hoped that he might find a permanent home, in a city where he could be accepted as a citizen, as a citizen without any pledge of faith, not the City of God or Marx, but the city called Peace of Mind. — Graham Greene

He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he'd done, but in the next breath tell her she'd deserved it. That if she'd been more careful, it wouldn't have happened. That if she'd been paying attention or hadn't been so stupid, he wouldn't have lost his temper. — Nicholas Sparks

I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool ... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand. — H. Rider Haggard

I saw several actresses play the part. I did not in fact, as far as I know, do anything that any of the other actresses did. I don't think actresses do that. I think that what we do is we see a role as a role, we don't see it as a person. We look at the role and think, 'What can I, as an actor, bring to that part? — Polly Bergen

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead. — Konrad Adenauer

The thing about money is," said Ben, "you can't be polite to it. Leave something suspicious to say, and it'll say it ... Leave something greedy to say, and it'll say it ... Leave something scary to say, and it'll say it."
"Money Talks — Kurt Vonnegut

I get to the back of the house, I damn near tear the door off the hinges. It isn't an act of fury, fury isn't part of it anymore. It's more deliberate than fury yet more instinctive than deliberation. — Steve Erickson

And it's not because I'm tortured
Or by some delirium swayed
That I conjure up misfortune:
It is just my trade. — Anna Akhmatova

Coincidence makes sense only with you. — Bjork

A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery's favorite vehicle. — Lily Brooks-Dalton

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. — Thomas Carlyle

But it's not enough! So long as the most powerful of the Epics consider themselves immune, nothing will change. So long as you leave them alone, you're essentially proving what they've always said! That if an Epic is strong enough, he can take what he wants, do what he wants. You're saying they deserve to rule. — Brandon Sanderson