Morganville Vampires Oliver Quotes

#1. If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

Socrates

#2. If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.

Susan Sontag

#3. Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice?
Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

Rachel Caine

#4. Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do ... well, you can't. Sorry about that.

Rachel Caine

#5. I was always told I had to be an example to my siblings. I was told to toe the line. So I had to behave.

Teresita Sy-Coson

#6. Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Iris Murdoch

#7. Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Tiger Woods

#8. Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a
disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.

Rachel Caine

#9. I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

Rachel Caine

#10. It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.

Rachel Caine

#11. She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.

Rachel Caine

#12. I do hope nobody else here has any other surprises planned, because if you so much as think about harming one another, I will oblige them. This is neutral ground. Violators will be gruesomely and violently shown the error of their ways. Clear?

Rachel Caine

#13. Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

Rachel Caine

#14. Our time here is short. We can pass through this world but once; as we pass along, let us make the most of life. The

Ellen G. White

#15. But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

K. Eric Drexler

#16. Every President wants to do right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#17. Morely: You're trying to make me [i]Amelie[/i]
Oliver: Goodness, no. You'd look terrible in a skirt

Rachel Caine

#18. Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
And still a new to-morrow does come on.
We by to-morrow draw out all our store,
Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

Abraham Cowley

#19. The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

Robin G. Collingwood

#20. I hate traveling with amateurs.

Rachel Caine

#21. The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.

Rachel Caine

#22. Life is mostly freehand.

Ivan Doig

#23. Escapism is survival to me.

Johnny Depp