Van Pelt Mentalist Quotes & Sayings

On his back, Robert must have had time to see something beautiful, and not just the ugliness of a city street at the end of life. Even with the tremendous pain in his badly gutted belly he would have looked up beyond the fire escapes and the windows with their glittery trees and television glows, to the sky about the rooftops. A sky shimmery with the possibilities of the death; lights exaggerated, the heavens peeled back- a swirling haze of nebulae and comets - in some distant place, intimations of the new beginning into which he would soon journey — Oscar Hijuelos

And she draws Boethius's imagination far up into the heavens so that he can look down on the Earth and see it as a tiny speck on which even tinier people play out their comical and ultimately insignificant ambitions. She gets him to admit that riches and fame bring anxiety and avarice, not peace and happiness. — Jonathan Haidt

These were my people: the abandoned, the unloved, the phenomenally unlucky. — Amy Bloom

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. — James I Of Scotland

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. — Taylor Swift

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work. — Robert G. Picard

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan

To lose is to die! You may win a thousand fights, but you can only lose one! — R.A. Salvatore

We are all debts owed to death. — Simonides

Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough. — M.L. Stephens

I'm going to make you happy, Natalie. I'm going to give you all the things you want, and I'll never betray you. As long as we're together, you and Aarabelle will be what I live for. I know she's not mine, but I'll love her like she is. I'm going to make sure you never know what it feels like to be second best. — Corinne Michaels

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop. — Robertson Davies

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government. — Matt Salmon

I never had any facial hair in my life. — Rachel Maddow