Top 100 Hoyt's Quotes
#1. Hoyt's view of hell is tactile; it is the pain which moves in him like jagged wires pulled through his veins and guts.
Dan Simmons
#2. The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the churchyard-Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum.
Harper Lee
#3. You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school or napping, you need to realize that this is your writing time and you don't spend it surfing the Internet or reading.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#4. Work your fingers to the bone - whadda ya get?
--------- boney fingers - boney fingers...
Hoyt Axton
#5. The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
Waite Hoyt
#6. In that moment Apollo resolved that no matter how ridiculous their mating might be, he wasn't going to let her change her mind. She was his now - and if he had any say in the matter, she'd be his always.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#7. You're after my sister's money."
"You see no other reason for me to seek the company of Lady Georgina?"
"I
"
"I wonder if you realize how close you are to insulting my lady," Harry said.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#8. The butterfly startled at Mary's gesture and floated up, drifting on the breeze, its wings sparkling blue and bright in the late afternoon sunshine.
Silence watched it, enthralled, and then her eyes met Michael's.
A corner of his mouth cocked up. Welcome home, m'love.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#9. Now, then, young lady. Which of these gentlemen will you marry?"
"This one." She squeezed [his] arm.
The vicar inspected [him] and sniffed. "Doesnt look that much different from the other one."
"Nevertheless"- she fought to remain sober-faced- "this is the man I want.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#10. Do you think 'Duke' is a good name?' she asked.
His face blanked for a second before it cleared. He glanced at the dog in consideration. 'I don't think so. He would outrank me.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#11. Lieutenant Cranston, sitting across the tavern table from him, looked startled. "Something amiss, Captain?" "It's as I feared - we've been called back to sea early. We set sail in less than a
Elizabeth Hoyt
#12. The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.
Waite Hoyt
#13. Society will judge you rather harshly, my dear. She
Elizabeth Hoyt
#14. He studied her upturned face for a minute. "Please forgive me. I don't want you to hope. If there were any way - " "I know." She got to her feet. "I even understand." She walked briskly to the door. "I came down to get something for Rebecca. She must be wondering what happened to me.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#15. When I get lost in a book, I forget about all my problems because I'm so engrossed in the character's lives.
Kaitlyn Hoyt
#16. Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#17. You do have to save my brother," she said, "because if you do not I will tell everyone in England that you are the Ghost of St. Giles.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#18. Percy romped up and dropped a sadly mangled, dead frog at her feet, then backed away and sat proudly by his prize, looking at Miss Greaves as if expecting praise. She absently ruffled the spaniel's ears.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#19. As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#20. His hand stilled on her hair and he said, very carefully and calmly, "There is never any excuse for a man to hit a woman - any woman - let alone one he professes to love." She was quiet a moment, just basking in his gentle strength.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#21. Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
Hoyt Axton
#22. Signs of craziness, like Hoyt McCoy dancing around naked? Disgusting filthiness, like a smelly outhouse or rat-swarmed garbage?
Jeanne DuPrau
#23. Have you asked the question yet? I'm rather good at it, if I do say to myself. I got three different ladies to agree to marry me while you were gone. Did you know? Some didn't actually make it to the alter, but that's another problem altogether. Perhaps you'd like some pointers on-
Elizabeth Hoyt
#24. It might've been my fichu.
-Patricia to Lucy about her engagement to vicar Penweeble.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#25. We all know that we'll die someday, but believing it is another thing entirely.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#26. She could hear him swallow, and then his face was against hers, his own damp. "I'm so lucky you would have me, my Phoebe, as my wife and my love. You've brought the sun into my lonely, gray life." (Captain James Trevellion)
Elizabeth Hoyt
#27. You can't teach a dog not to bark, for 'tis God's will that they do,
Elizabeth Hoyt
#28. If I've never stepped outside the role that's been assigned to me since birth, I've never tested myself. I've been too afraid of others' opinions, I think. I've been a coward. If that woman needs me, why not help her - for her ... and for me?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#29. He doesn't deserve to die," she said. Tears pricked at her eyes. "Does anyone? Whether he deserves it or not is neither here nor there; it's simply his fate. You can no more change that than you can change the course of the stars.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#30. Love is like a rose, It's beautiful and strong. But if you play with it, you'll get cut.
Tyler Hoyt
#31. Goggie!" she exclaimed, holding both hands out urgently to Lad, who'd been dozing by the fire.
"By all means," Michael replied amicably, as if he and Mary were having a conversation. "Let's bring the mutt with us, as well. He's almost presentable now that he stinks o' roses.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#32. It's strange, but I find myself more disillusioned by a man who has such easily persuaded views than I would be by one whose views were entirely opposite but passionately held. Isn't that quixotic of me?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#33. Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
Waite Hoyt
#34. Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#35. Indio started forward and took the big man's hand as naturally as he'd taken his mother's. Come on! Maude's making roast chicken and there'll be gravy and dumplings.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#36. I see a woman who has a deep curiosity. Who wants to feel but is worried- of herself? Of others? I'm not sure. But I think she has a fire banked within her. Maybe it's only embers now, glowing in the dark, but if tinder were to be put to those embers... oh, what a conflagration that would be.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#37. Diana," he murmured in her ear, licking. "Diana, you are everything I've ever wanted and shall never have."
Tears pricked at her eyes and she opened her mouth to sob.
"That's it," he said. "Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#38. What are you looking for?" she asked abruptly. "It's rather rude for a gentleman to enter a lady's room without permission."
"I'm not a gentleman."
"Really? I thought otherwise.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#39. It was no use. Edward rolled his head back against his shoulders, trying to ease the tension. He would have to make a trip to London soon to spend a night or even two at Aphrodite's Grotto. Perhaps after that he could be in his secretary's presence without lustful thoughts taking over his mind.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#40. Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#41. Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady, one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veritable chills down George's spine.
Harry.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#42. It's great to be young and a Yankee!
Waite Hoyt
#43. For a moment she lay still in the big bed, blinking sleepily, loath to move.
And then she realized that the angel's song hadn't stopped on her waking.
Silence sat up. The tantalizingly beautiful voice was coming from the half-open door to Mickey O'Connor's room.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#44. She glanced at the man quickly. "Thank you." She meant to say more, but something was caught in her throat. Her eyes stung. "Weep not, proud Diana," Maximus murmured. "The moon will not allow it." "No." She agreed, swiping fiercely at her cheeks. "There's no need for tears yet.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#45. All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman
a lady
must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#46. What," came a deep male voice, "is this?"
Silence froze, her hand still outstretched, clutching a damp, dirty cloth. Oh, dear Lord. Slowly she raised her eyes and found herself face-to-thighs with Mickey O'Connor's extremely tight breeches.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#47. Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.
Hoyt Vandenberg
#48. There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#49. I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#50. It would be the height of idiocy for the Duke of Wakefield to pursue the cousin of the woman he wanted as wife. And yet, for the first time in his life, Maximus wanted to let the man rule him instead of the title.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#51. Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#52. I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#53. I thought on that, but there just ain't no way around the fact that some folks need killing.
C. Hoyt Caldwell
#54. You're not to go wading in my pond again," he said. She shrugged and picked up her shoes and stockings where they lay on the path. "Very well, Your Grace, but it's a great pity. I should've liked to go swimming.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#55. He'd make sure to impress upon the wench his displeasure with her actions if only she weren't being so completely childish as to ignore him all morning.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#56. She knew about young boys - she'd spent the last year taking care of them. They were tough and reckless and yet at the same time so very sweet and vulnerable. Their cheeks were soft and their eyes apologized even as they fought to assert their independence with too smart mouths.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#57. Please remember that just because love isn't expressed doesn't mean it isn't felt.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#58. Will ye be wantin' this now, madam?"
"Yes, please," she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#59. Behave, Miss Greaves," he murmured under his breath, his voice husky and deep. "Fine words for a man who runs about St. Giles at night in a mask," she whispered. He frowned, glancing around. "Hush.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#60. She took his length gently between her hands, her arms resting on his thighs, and looked up into his face. "I'm very, very angry with you."
And she opened her mouth over him.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#61. Some people say I'm a no count, others say I'm no goodBut I'm just a natural born travelin' manDoin' what I think I should, oh yeahDoin' what I think I should.
Hoyt Axton
#62. Maximus turned to the house, thinking. He had no idea how he would do it yet, but he meant to best her. He'd show her that he was the master, and when she'd admitted his victory ... well, then he'd have her. And he'd hold her, by God. His huntress. His goddess.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#63. Winter? She traced a circle on his breastbone, her touch
Elizabeth Hoyt
#64. Will ye come with me?" he whispered.
And she answered without hesitation. "Yes, please.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#65. You've used me to punish yourself, haven't you?"
He watched dawning realization spread over her face, a confirmation more positive than anything she could ever say, and that arrow twisted deep in his
chest. Yet still he had to ask the last question.
"Am I anything to you but a punishment?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#66. I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!
Elizabeth Hoyt
#67. Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt
Dan Simmons
#68. If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.
Hoyt Axton
#69. He paid scant attention to the conversation. He could smell his own sent on Anna's body, and it satisfied him in a primal way ... She gasped as he buried his nose in her maiden hair and inhaled. His scent was strongest here, in her gilded curls so soft and pretty in the morning light.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#70. It's so tedious," Montgomery sighed, "to have to wait for invitations and, I find, they often don't come when you most want them to. Much easier to simply disregard formal invitations altogether.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#71. I control your funds. I don't control you. And I think, Mr. Harte, that had you all the money in the world, or sat penniless in a gutter, I still would not find you very likable.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#72. I watched you for years," she whispered. The tears were drying on her cheeks, and heat was building within her. If he would just touch her. Touch her there. "I watched you and you never saw me.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#73. Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#74. He grinned, but a bead of sweat ran down his temple. Then with your permission.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#75. Have you ever noticed that once you have had a tasted of certain sweets- raspberry trifle is my own despair- it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#76. And if he presses, tell him it's a female matter. That stops any question.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#77. Just because I don't deserve her doesn't mean I won't fight to keep her.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#78. He grinned, looking not a little wicked. "Have you looked at my books? Glanced at my titles? Fondled my spines?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#79. I believe that you wanted to love Marie - that you're enamored by the idea of love - but that you have no concept what love is. I think that's what you're searching for in St. Giles - some source of emotion, some inkling of what human feeling really is.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#81. He looked down at her as he eased from the bed. Why such a creature of light and love and life should have come to him, he could not fathom. But he was grateful. Very grateful.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#82. I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.
Waite Hoyt
#83. Thena . . . I fell in love with you as you are. Fractured, maybe. Lost, perhaps. But I'm no prize either.
Sarah A. Hoyt
#84. Aight baby show me the exact spot, meet me at Hoyt & Schemethorn at 3 on the dot
Jeru The Damaja
#85. THERE WERE THOSE who compared Bedlam to hell - a writhing purgatory of torture and insanity. But Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne, knew what Bedlam really was. It was limbo. A place of interminable waiting.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#86. She'd never find another man like him as long as she lived. He was ruining her for any other, and the pleasure of it was beyond bearing.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#87. Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!
Waite Hoyt
#89. I believe in JesusAn' what the Bible saidAn' I am fairly certainHe had himself a heavy head.He scared the lyin' peopleSo bad, they hung him deadAn' they never even listenedTo what he really said.
Hoyt Axton
#90. He grinned, though his face was strained. That's it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#91. I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue. (Winter Makepeace)
Elizabeth Hoyt
#92. She caught her breath on a sob. He was going to London to bed another woman.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#93. Tall, dark fellow with a bit of a manner? Witty and knows it? And a devil with the ladies, he thought but did not say aloud to his sister.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#94. A mother never abandons her child, even when he seems to want it
Elizabeth Hoyt
#95. When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by.
Tess Gerritsen
#96. His knee pressed between her thighs, bunching the linen against her woman's place, spreading her and rubbing into her folds.
She found herself undulating against that knee, pleasuring herself with his hard, hot, wet body.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#97. You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.
Waite Hoyt
#98. Well I've never been to England But I kind of like the Beatles.
Hoyt Axton
#99. Still, it was a sad state of the world that people judged others not by the best that they could be but by the worst thought in their own hearts.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#100. Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.
Hoyt Axton
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