Berlin Noir Quotes

#1. If she could seldom bring herself to touch me and even more seldom look at me directly, she nonetheless made a place for me in her life.

Dean Koontz

#2. You gave me forever within the numbered days.

John Green

#3. Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

Arthur E. Morgan

#4. When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

Philip Kerr

#5. I can't believe that in the world of wrong we've created together, this can still feel so right.

Leisa Rayven

#6. We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy.

Joseph Campbell

#7. You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds or thinking about what you would like to be doing out of doors, instead of flogging yourself to work out of sheer boredom.

Mary Stewart

#8. It's a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we're the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it's a district of England or France or Spain.

Tim Powers

#9. Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

Eugene Ionesco

#10. I WAS DONE. No. That wasn't quite right. I was a hundred miles past done, cresting into the Fjords of Nope, heading for Fuck-That-Ville.

Seanan McGuire

#11. Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

Leland Stanford

#12. There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.

Aga Khan IV

#13. We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Paul Prudhomme

#14. No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

Louis L'Amour

#15. Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

Philip Kerr

#16. Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught.

Philip Kerr

#17. No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

George MacDonald

#18. A good agent will sometimes need to be a scrapper, and that's the one you want.

Mark Billingham