Scarrow Quotes & Sayings

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist. — Alex Scarrow

She moans about everything anyway. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't with a bitch like her. — Alex Scarrow

You cannot teach a man how to forget fear. It is a rare quality — Simon Scarrow

She hates that word. Nice is what you call ice cream, or a paper doily, or fluffy bunny rabbit print pattern. — Alex Scarrow

It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too obscure for them to recognise. — Alex Scarrow

It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer) — Alex Scarrow

In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men. — Alex Scarrow

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go ... please? — Alex Scarrow

Oh God, what is it with mankind? Never happy unless it's blowing someone up. — Alex Scarrow

The Saracens surrendered to Richard. And he had every last one of them beheaded. There was a hill of heads, a hill that grew gradually out of the moat and spilled on to the plain.' Liam looked down at a potato bobbing in his soup and all of a sudden felt a little less hungry. — Alex Scarrow

The legion was raised by Mark Antony. He filled the ranks with men from Cleopatra's army. When Antony was defeated by Octavian, the Twenty-Second was integrated into the rest of the army and has been stationed on the Nile since then. They're a mix of Greeks and Egyptians from the Nile cities. — Simon Scarrow

Thoughts of revenge must give way to the need for swift action, — Simon Scarrow

Lust? Who's talking about lust? You want to screw her, right? So that's your objective. All you need now is deployment of the appropriate tactics to manoeuvre her into an advantageous position and then secure your conquest. Then it's just a question of mopping up. — Simon Scarrow

Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb. — Alex Scarrow

It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.
It sounded like a revolution.
It sounded like hope. — Alex Scarrow

The loners are always trouble. You know that. — Alex Scarrow

I sometimes wish I could "reboot",' said Sal. 'Empty my head and start over. — Alex Scarrow

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others. — Alex Scarrow

His dying mind conjured up one last, reassuring thought.
In the end, don't we all come from dust anyway? We come from dust... and we end as dust.
The oh-so-short passage in between is the bit we call 'life'.
Everything ends eventually.
Everything. — Alex Scarrow

There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes. — Alex Scarrow

I'd love to give Jesus a Dictaphone or something, so we could play back what he actually said to some idiots speaking on his behalf today — Alex Scarrow

If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal. — Alex Scarrow

In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care ... — Alex Scarrow

We all die eventually. But the one thing we can do is seek answers along the way. — Alex Scarrow

The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified. — Alex Scarrow

Science is a thought process that can be proven or disproven. Whereas philosophy, religion, art . . . ?' He shrugged again, dismissively. 'With those areas of thought, everyone's opinion is considered valid. No one, therefore is "wrong". Which logically means no one is right. It's circular thinking that gets no one anywhere. — Alex Scarrow

A gladiator only gets to use a real sword when he fights in the arena, since no Roman worth his salt trusts a gladiator with a real sword in the ludus. You have that ungrateful wretch Spartacus to thank for that. — Simon Scarrow

She laughed. 'See? You can do philosophy!'
He rolled his eyes and shook his head. 'Don't insult me. — Alex Scarrow

Was... That a "you've been a clever boy" kiss? Or... Uh... — Alex Scarrow

I hope that when the characters in my novels dream beyond their current circumstance, it inspires the reader to do the same. — Kristine Scarrow