Eldest Christopher Paolini Quotes

#1. Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

Gottfried Keller

#2. When we paint the picture of our salvation for others to see, we may use different colors, textures, and shapes on the edges of the parchment. But in the center can only be a cross. Anything else cheapens grace and cheats the believer.

Beth Moore

#3. Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.

Christopher Paolini

#4. I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. I like to wake up each morning felling a new man.

Jean Harlow

#6. I think it would dismay them to know what it takes to feed you. Not to mention that you could empty their cellars of beer and wine in a single night.' Eragon said.
I would never, Saphira sniffed. Maybe in two nights.

Christopher Paolini

#7. Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

Frantz Fanon

#8. I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her.
-Bryce

Wendelin Van Draanen

#9. These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Don't live in a world of 'I never should have'. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at the stars.

Mary Alice Kruesi

#11. Your love for me is transparent, no hidden agenda, no ulterior motive.

Euginia Herlihy

#12. If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

Kenneth Clarke

#13. I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

Leon Panetta

#14. Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh? (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)

Christopher Paolini

#15. How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd ...

Irene Nemirovsky

#16. Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.

Nicolas Winding Refn