Roxanne Quimby Quotes & Sayings

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. — Sean Penn

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We really need a new world order. I refuse to believe that nature takes joy and pleasure in sculpting the young and rich — S.A. David

You have your milk," he said. "Where there is milk, there is hope. — Neil Gaiman

My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it. — Suzanne Collins

And if the City falls and one survives
he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile
he shall be the City — Zbigniew Herbert

His presence silenced, if only for a few seconds, the crackling anxiety that made my blood grate against my bones and for a little while I'd feel melted and soft. — Meg Rosoff

My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I thought: who will clean the mess? — A.E. Croft

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction. — Pushpa Rana

There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of. — Guillermo Del Toro

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success. — Burt Shavitz

Unable to help himself, he offered her a smile and stared into those eyes as he tapped his mouth. "I think you missed. — J.M. Stewart

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe. — Sherry Thomas

Tends to put us before the television and its one-way window — David Foster Wallace

Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different — Alexander McCall Smith