Top 41 Nicholas And Alexandra Quotes
#1. When making his music, he [Elvis Presley] had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scrips for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra.
Dean Koontz
#2. I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.
Kathryn Harrison
#3. When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
Kathryn Harrison
#4. A man was sitting on the float wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and a worn Sox cap, working on a lobster trap. The place was classic Maine, like you'd see on a postcard. Tori
D.J. MacHale
#5. Not like you to let someone get that close," Nicholas said, nodding at the cut on his forehead. "Need the surgeon?"
"And be forced to admit that one of this ship's cabin boys caught me unawares with a spoon as I went below? Wicked little bugger. I'd rather be boiled in oil.
Alexandra Bracken
#6. It shouldn't surprise me that men continue to think of grand new ways to kill one another, and with greater precision ...
Alexandra Bracken
#7. It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Lucretius
#8. I had the privilege of playing an angel on 'Touched by an Angel' for many years - almost two decades, and we would deliver a message on the show. The message was that God loves them, and before filming every scene, we would come together and pray.
Roma Downey
#9. Having actually read the Voltaire in question, I can confirm the quote is, as different from ours as the breed of spaniels is from that of greyhounds," Nicholas said coldly. "Interesting, though, that in the end we're all just dogs.
Alexandra Bracken
#10. How about a kiss, hey?" Etta liked that she was still able to startle him, just a little. The blank look of concentration broke as he barked out a laugh. "I don't know if that's a wise idea. We'd never leave.
Alexandra Bracken
#11. It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
John Norman
#12. Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.
Robert D. Putnam
#14. Stop trying to make me feel better," Sophia ordered. "It won't work. I'm determined to be angry and guilty about this for at least another two days, and then again when I'm punching your corpse.
Alexandra Bracken
#15. Half the men worship at her feet; the other half have already proposed marriage, including young Jack, who has sworn to his dear 'miss' that he'll be true if she'll only wait a few more years for him.
Alexandra Bracken
#16. Nicholas began, wondering if he looked half as diabolical as he felt.
Alexandra Bracken
#17. With tears in her eyes, Alexandra assured him that the husband and father was infinitely more precious to her than the tsar whose throne she had shared. Nicholas finally broke. Laying his head on his wife's breast, he sobbed like a child.
Robert K. Massie
#18. As far as Nicholas was concerned, half-truths only added up to a whole lie. Glancing
Alexandra Bracken
#19. Well," Etta said weakly, "she's always told me a good challenge builds character."
"Then we'll have an excess of it," he said dryly.
Alexandra Bracken
#20. That's beautiful," she said.
He turned to her. "Would you like me to go take that violin for you? I'd gladly fight whatever angry mob rises up if it might make you smile."
Her heart just about burst at that. Be brave. "I would only want to play for you.
Alexandra Bracken
#21. Oh my God you are despicable!" Etta snarled.
"Careful, madam, blasphemy is still a sin-"
Even if Nicholas had been the gambling sort, he never would have wagered a single coin on her next words being "Then I guess I'll see you in hell!
Alexandra Bracken
#22. I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.
Tony Campolo
#23. Curse my clumsy tongue," Wren said, raising a glass in a mocking salute.
Nicholas raised his own. "Thankfully, you have a sparkling imagination to make up for it.
Alexandra Bracken
#25. She set her shoulders back, meeting his gaze with a challenge. "You call that a kiss?" One corner of his mouth quirks up. "We haven't the time for a proper one, pirate. Now tell me, where precisely are we?
Alexandra Bracken
#27. You hurt my heart with you pseudointellectual mild, flattering speech.
Rea Lidde
#28. Nicholas felt a peculiar sort of envy for his past self, the young man who still existed outside of the barbed knot of time. The one who had not yet been crushed into dust.
Alexandra Bracken
#29. Nicholas wondered briefly if it was his destiny to be surrounded by women possessing varying degrees of murderous intent.
Alexandra Bracken
#30. All I hear are Satan's hammers and the war drums of hell, thank you.
Alexandra Bracken
#31. I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
David Cronenberg
#32. I like the anthology concept. I wish more shows would do it.
Hank Stuever
#34. ...People - the ones who are left behind - desire answers. Even when we are advised from beyond the grave not to pursue them.
Marguerite Kaye
#35. Nicholas had not seen such a look of unwelcome surprise on his captain's face since the time their former cook announced he had served the crew stewed rat instead of salted beef.
Alexandra Bracken
#36. Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
Isaac Newton
#37. Nicholas felt a rueful smile spread across his face. And a curse be on him for it, because now he knew her. She'd shown him her mind, and she'd opened up her heart, and now he knew the taste of her tears. And he was wrecked.
Alexandra Bracken
#38. His presence was larger-than-life, bigger even than his physical body.
Alexandra Bracken
#40. Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.
Thomas Betterton
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