Scarrow Simon Quotes & Sayings

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

No one can understand human reality without understanding human imagination. — Marty Rubin

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. — Edgar Degas

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

When in doubt, play dead. Well, unless you might be dealing with a ghoul, or a basilisk, or something else that likes its meat a little ripe. Actually, when in doubt, just start shooting. - Alice Healy — Seanan McGuire

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city. — John Hickenlooper

I couldn't wait for high school to be over. I didn't let my exasperation show, however. I'd long since discovered how to live inside the shark tank without getting eaten or becoming a shark: never let 'em see you sweat. Don't show any emotion, no matter how many you're feeling. It just reveals your weaknesses and, to them, weaknesses are like blood in the water. I try never to let them see me get angry, upset, defensive, flustered, uncertain, anything. I'm sure that, to them, I seem somewhat robotic, but it keeps me out of trouble and keeps them at arm's length. And that's how I survive — M. Leighton

But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it. — Claire LaZebnik

People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead. — Ann Beattie

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

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

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death. — Margaret Of Cortona

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

If Christmas is for families, what do you do when there are families scattered all over the country? I am pretty sure God wants to make sure I touch all the bases, even if I spend his actual birthday with Delta Airlines. — Gail Collins