Grendel's Quotes

#1. Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

John Gardner

#2. The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.

Ilona Andrews

#3. They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.
'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

John Gardner

#4. In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

Seamus Heaney

#5. But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

Karl Rove

#6. Rene looked at Grendel. "What in the world is that?"
"That's our mutant attack poodle," I told her.
"Is he chewing on a gun?

Ilona Andrews

#7. What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.

Catherine Lacey

#8. My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

John Gardner

#9. Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king's grave, tease, torment my wits toward meaningful patterns that do not exist.

John Gardner

#10. Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Paul Hawken

#11. When you read the poem, you wonder, what might Grendel have been? Could it have been a person that was turned away? Someone that was disfigured or deformed? Like everything else did, it came from somewhere. It's really exciting, and not knowing is part of the magic and mystery.

Kieran Bew

#12. A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.

Chellis Glendinning

#13. I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

John Gardner

#14. Who is that?"
"Your replacement."
"You replaced me with a shaved poodle?"
"He's got mad skills.

Ilona Andrews

#15. I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

Ilona Andrews

#16. Kate sat at her desk. Grendel sprawled by her feet, an enormous black monstrosity that had more in common with the hound of the Baskervilles than with any poodle I had ever seen.

Ilona Andrews

#17. You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

Keith Jarrett

#18. Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast.

Chauncey Brewster Tinker

#19. Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

Joel Osteen

#20. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

John D. Rockefeller

#21. And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Mike Huckabee

#22. He was lost, captured by an innocent, destroyed by a would-be nun, and there was no way the monster, Simon of Navarre, Richard the Fair's Grendel, would ever be the same.

Anne Stuart

#23. We can get you a throne with snakes. I'll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It'll be great ...

Ilona Andrews

#24. It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

John Gardner

#25. Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

John Gardner

#26. I'm no superhero. If anything I'm Rorschach from Watchmen. I'm Grendel. I'm the survivor in Silent Hill.

Kendare Blake