Herron Quotes

#1. Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode.

Camille Paglia

#2. I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.

Helen Herron Taft

#3. Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

John Tesh

#4. Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up ...
Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.

Tupac Shakur

#5. all the work's done low on the food chain. Everyone else just has meetings.' In

Mick Herron

#6. But there was nothing, and never would be. Learning that was one thing. Living with it, another entirely. Careful

Mick Herron

#7. He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, those beautiful hands.

Anne Lamott

#8. Detroit is just like everywhere else, only more so--a lot more so.

Jerry Herron

#9. Short-term, hot fling staying at your house?"
She couldn't help the smile. "Not lately. As far as I remember. If there's one there now, it's because he found out where I hide the key.

Rachael Herron

#10. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

Haruki Murakami

#11. This thing couldn't have fallen apart faster if you'd bought it at Ikea, and

Mick Herron

#12. This was her special time, this early part of the day when the sun was just about to creep over the horizon. It was a brand new day in which anything could happen.

Fern Michaels

#13. It was all there in that little disc-London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare. There everyone had lived and everything had happened; and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of an empty house near Sterk.

C.S. Lewis

#14. That was the true purpose of Slough House. It was a way of losing people without having to get rid of them, sidestepping legal hassle and tribunal threats.

Mick Herron

#15. Because we both know the tide's turning. The decent people in this country are sick to death of being held hostage by mad liberals in Brussels, and the sooner we take control over our own future, our own borders -

Mick Herron

#16. Blast it, I fancy him.

Finley Aaron

#17. The time you save is just what makes the difference between trivia and culture.

James Herron

#18. Everyone wanted a life less ordinary. And only a tiny minority ever got it, and even they probably didn't appreciate it much.

Mick Herron

#19. The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.

Leonard Mlodinow

#20. Lamb said, 'If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.' He tapped Moody's shoulder with his foot. 'Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record.

Mick Herron

#21. Why did some people hear the voice, loud and clear, while others just floated from thing to thing, from person to person, never completely fitting in, never entirely at home.

Rachael Herron

#22. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Denis Diderot

#23. No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

George Davis Herron

#24. Regent's Park was looking to the Met for an injection of integrity, it was in serious danger of an irony meltdown.

Mick Herron

#25. The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing

Seth Godin

#26. [S]tart at the turn of the last century, in 1901, with the celebration of Detroit's bicentennial. That was the Detroit that came before--before all the racket that attended the making of the modern world, which happened here first and faster than anywhere else on this planet.

Jerry Herron

#27. In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

Joel Courtney

#28. God gives us all kinds, and we just gots to love 'em however they

Rita Herron

#29. From its outside wall half a luggage trolley protruded: platform 93/4 was where the Hogwarts Express docked. River

Mick Herron

#30. The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

George Davis Herron

#31. Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture. Hence

Mick Herron

#32. She'd read a lot of discussions about 9/11, obviously, but contributions from structural engineers had been conspicuous by their absence. And

Mick Herron

#33. office jokers were a crime in progress -

Mick Herron

#34. I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

Polly Adler

#35. He still read copy as if it were Braille; bumps in the language letting him know when

Mick Herron

#36. That man loved me so hard I knew I'd never do half of what I should to deserve it. And that was the point. He said I never had to do a thing to make him love me. He just did. He just loved me.

Rachael Herron

#37. as every office worker knows, it's not the hope that kills you. It's knowing it's the hope that kills you that kills you.

Mick Herron