Haller's Quotes

#1. Defend Miss Haller from the Nazis. In the final chapter, the ghosts saw off the spies and word came through that Miss Haller's father had been smuggled out of Germany. Gillian

Kim Newman

#2. Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that." "Indeed. Then what does it depend on?" "On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable.

Hermann Hesse

#4. I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity for pain.

Hermann Hesse

#5. A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Livy

#6. Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

Mignon McLaughlin

#7. Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Henri Nouwen

#8. No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

Ron Luciano

#9. I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Freddie Mercury

#10. There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.

Michael Connelly

#11. Haller belongs to those who have been caught between two ages, who are outside of all security and simple acquiescence. He belongs to those whose fate it is to live the whole riddle of human destiny heightened to the pitch of a personal torture, a personal hell.

Hermann Hesse

#12. You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

Charlie Trotter

#13. You had the best of me and what have I got?

Stephen King

#14. Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

Michael Connelly

#15. All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.

Cassandra Clare

#16. When a stoplight caught us, I found a strange amount of joy in putting my hands on hers, or resting my hand on her knee. She didn't seem to mind, and admittedly, I was pretty fucking close to heaven.

Jamie McGuire

#17. Play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you

Michael Connelly

#18. Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

Robert Gottlieb

#19. Nature never jests.

Albrecht Von Haller

#20. Human behavior, ninety-eight percent of it, is an abomination.

Thom Jones

#21. Gender roles suck, says Swift Fox.
Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

Margaret Atwood

#22. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch a killer by the toe. If his lawyer's Haller, let him go. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe. Hey bro.

Michael Connelly

#23. And I've met a very wonderful woman," I said.

"They're all wonderful," Haller said.
"Well, many of them," I said.
"I love them," Haller said. "The way they talk, how they smell, the way they touch their hair, everything."
"I know," I said.

Robert B. Parker

#24. Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#25. No more crying. Tears only cause destructive
floods. When you are sad, you build a boat.

Katherine Russell