Talan Quotes & Sayings

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. — Alfred De Vigny

Martin wasn't smiling, but his eyes were warm and interested. "Do you always talk like that?"
"Like what? Like awesome?"
"Yeah, like awesome. — Penny Reid

Ohlen stood and walked around the clearing, examining the ground as he went. "I see only one set of tracks ... " his voice trailed off as he knelt, inspecting the footprints more closely. "I've seen these before. This is the cru'gan."
Ahmahn came over and bent down beside his friend. "Him? Do you mean the scarred one that has Mirra?"
"Either that or a ferocious rabbit wearing cru'gan boots," Ohlen said sardonically. — Steven Scott Williamson

Make the iron hot by striking it. — Oliver Cromwell

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. — Sylvia Kristel

The method of drinking tea at this stage was primitive in the extreme. The leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made into a cake, and boiled together with rice, ginger, salt, orange peel, spices, milk, and sometimes with onions! — Okakura Kakuzo

Merry didn't make you a whining bitch, Talan; you were always that. — Laurell K. Hamilton

New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you, teach you tricks of the heart you thought Tennessee Williams was just kidding about. And in August it could break your spirit. — Julie Smith

I'm all right, she murmured. Talan — Clive Cussler

No, no, pretty boy," she said close to his ear. "You should never get between two strong women fighting. That is not your place. Your place is just to be pretty and satisfy one of my daughters." "Woman," Talan warned, "get your hands off me." The giant laughed. "Look, comrades! He is so very saucy! I love saucy boys! — G.A. Aiken

We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive. — Marcus Aurelius

What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun. — Jacqueline Bisset