Red Dragon Book Quotes & Sayings

By turns the nine delight to sing — Homer

When you cause pain to those weaker than you, the guilt turns to loathing. Into a most secret and profound loathing, for we can never name it as such. We explain it away in other terms, but we, and we alone, know it to be the most animal of all hatreds: our hatred of weakness. — Aatish Taseer

I tell people that the scales lie. You may have played basketball and weighed 175 pounds, with a 30-inch waist, back when you were in college. And you may still weigh 175 at 55. But you probably have a 35-inch waist and you've probably lost 30 or 40 pounds of muscle
and gained 30 or 40 pounds of fat. The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime. — Jack LaLanne

I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn's full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body ... her smoking body bared only for me. — Stephanie Witter

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. — Steve Vai

You people and your inability to distinguish fantasy from reality! — Ryohgo Narita

You will no longer pick this sage that flavors your whole life. — Naomi Shihab Nye

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. — Vidal Sassoon

Art is a terrible preacher, but a tremendous conversationalist. — Melanie Dale

For a time I let my mouth hang open, so that my excitement might take opportunity and leave. — Franz Kafka

I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead. — Leo Tolstoy

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things. — Robert Henri

We have fried chicken in common? Do you realize how loaded fried chicken is as a metaphor here? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie