Canticle Quotes

#1. The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.

Kameron Hurley

#2. It was her wedding dress and it had a flare-out bottom, and they had laid her head to foot in it so the dress could spread out, and they had made her a veil out of a mosquito bar so the auger holes in her face wouldn't show.

William Faulkner

#3. We call it Albion. It is the English-speaking world. The one where they kill babies in the womb, right? And here I was hoping we'd be famous for the Moonshot, or democracy, or the Beatles, or something.

John C. Wright

#4. For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

Patrick Carman

#5. Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

Francis Bacon

#6. Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.
St. Francis of Assisi,
Canticle of the Sun

Francis Of Assisi

#7. Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

Anne Rice

#8. Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Caroline Kennedy