Hawksmoor Quotes

#1. The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and mysticism. Yet

Owen Hopkins

#2. Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.

Peter Ackroyd

#3. Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

Peter Ackroyd

#4. Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

Nicholas Hawksmoor

#5. I didn't think I would be better for a while, but i wasn't horrible either, which made me sort of proud.

J.J. McAvoy

#6. A good scientist must accept the challenge that one day everything he believes could be wrong.

Sam Hawksmoor

#7. I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water ... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

Eva Green

#8. A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

Solomon

#9. Sixty years ago the idea of everyone having a telephone in their pockets was science fiction. Our whole way of life is science fiction, if you look at it from the past.

Sam Hawksmoor

#10. There is wisdom in climbing mountains ... For they teach us how truly small we are.

Jeff Wheeler

#11. You invited me here to slay dragons, did you not? Well. That's what I'm trying to do.

Rick Yancey

#12. The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it.

Sam Hawksmoor

#13. Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

Nicholas Hawksmoor

#14. There is no better remedy for disorder than to let it runs its course; it will then disappear on its own.

Baltasar Gracian

#15. ...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.

Eoin Colfer