Vintage Crime Lizard Quotes & Sayings

Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist. — Jeff Lindsay

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken ... so take it! — Peter Ueberroth

Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation. — J.D. Salinger

One [dogma] is that violence is caused by a deficit of morality and justice. On the contrary, violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators. — Steven Pinker

Good and evil are silly lies, nonsense put forth to plague honest sensible men. — George R R Martin

You know who you've become," he stated through panting breaths, "you just don't recognize her. You've become mine. — Courtney Lane

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do. — Richard J. Foster

In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering. — Jeff Lindsay

No one regrets having changed a lightbulb. — Gretchen Rubin

It'd have been so nice if my life had been a well-controlled experiment. You know; start off with your basic ingredients, add education, experiences, events, stirring with a glass rod, when appropriate retarding the reaction with a block of ice. Predictable consequences, intended results, and something worth having at the end. Hasn't quite worked out like that. As for the result, the product, we'll have to wait and see. I may yet surprise myself. — K.J. Parker

Feeling - what authentic human fun! — Jeff Lindsay

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me. — Jeff Lindsay

An alternative, favored by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis. — Terry Pratchett

In the works of Shakespeare, the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today. — Joseph Devlin

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating. — Jeff Lindsay

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away. — Pablo Picasso

Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.' — Carine Roitfeld

I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it. — Chita Rivera

Sometimes Buenos Aires is not so safe. You are scared to have someone behind you at night. — Elena Roger