Mentat Quotes

#1. I'll never be a Mentat," he said. "I'm something else ... a freak.

Frank Herbert

#2. Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat."
-Piter De Vries

Frank Herbert

#3. Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know what it is you learned from that lovely Dune planet - waste not? True, Baron?
-Piter De Vries

Frank Herbert

#4. A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.

John Howard Griffin

#5. A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. (difficult to make a real confession and show what happened when you're such an egomaniac all you can do is take off on big paragraphs about minor details about yourself and the big sole details about others go sitting and waiting around)

Jack Kerouac

#7. Biscuits are rough, potatoes are tough. I pray to God we all get enough.

Karen Cecil Smith

#8. Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Gore Vidal

#9. They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal volumes lay with cracked spines across the Oriental rug.

Ariel Lawhon

#10. By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Don Feder

#11. Start working your plan today to set yourself free tomorrow.

Michael Baisden

#12. His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will's were the color of the sky just on the edge of night.

Cassandra Clare

#13. Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Frank Herbert

#14. In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

Condola Rashad

#15. My friend. My love. My breath.-Eagan

Petra F. Bagnardi

#16. Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

Kevin Rollins

#17. Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

Jean Ingelow

#18. I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

F.L. Lucas

#19. In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.

James Baldwin