Captain Sham Quotes

#1. She crawled in front of the Baudelaires' guardian and bared her teeth at Captain Sham.

Lemony Snicket

#2. Truth, schmuth," Captain Sham said. If you don't care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the real first letters. Somebody who didn't care about dentists, for instance, could say "Dentists, schmentists.

Lemony Snicket

#3. There is a lizard called the chameleon that, as you probably know, can change color instantly to blend into its surroundings. Besides being slimy and clod-blooded, Captain Sham resembled the chameleon in that he was chameleonic, a word means 'able to blend in with any situation.

Lemony Snicket

#4. What do you say when you're not enough to make someone stay?

Katie Kacvinsky

#5. Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.

Richelle Mead

#6. I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.

Jennifer Armentrout

#7. If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in danger. People tend to pay attention in situations like that. I think fear is the easiest, and most visceral, emotion to activate in an audience.

David Hayter

#8. One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

Richard L. Evans

#9. If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

Susan B. Anthony

#10. It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

Sherry Stringfield

#11. What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

Jonathan Stroud

#12. Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

Leonardo Da Vinci

#13. The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

Geoff Johns

#14. I don't like to think 10 years down the road.

Martin Gore

#15. I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

Robert Webb

#16. A Nottinghamshire man called Tubbs wished very much to see a fairy and, from thinking of fairies day and night, and from reading all sorts of odd books about them, he took it into his head that his coachman was a fairy.

Susanna Clarke

#17. If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

Wayne Dyer