Esterhazy Quotes

#1. Already up to his waist in the quaking bog, Pendergast stopped struggling and stared up at his assassin. The icy glitter in the pale gray eyes spoke more eloquently of his hatred and despair than any words he might have spoken, and it shook Esterhazy to the core.

Douglas Preston

#2. I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#3. How are you? My father could say this quicker than anybody. He was always the first to say how are you, provided the occasion called for it, and he saw his chance. Thanks to this skill, he was made ambassador to England ...

Peter Esterhazy

#4. I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!

David Vitter

#5. You don't even know what loyalty means."
"The hell I don't! Ciena, if I weren't loyal to you, would I be here?

Claudia Gray

#6. They will have to destroy this city once we deliver the black box. The current bones will not accommodate the marrow of the device. They will have to raze the city and cart off the rubble to less popular boroughs and start anew.

Colson Whitehead

#7. History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.

Peter Esterhazy

#8. Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.

Peter Esterhazy

#9. He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

Edith Wharton

#10. Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

Peg Bracken

#11. He might look distinguished and fancy, but he kissed rough and dirty.

Jay Crownover

#12. Occasionally I ponder all the things I'd have time to notice if I had more free time.

S. Kelley Harrell

#13. History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

Peter Esterhazy

#14. The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

Barack Obama

#16. Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is a wonderful moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh