Nodier's Quotes

#1. Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

John Clute

#2. If it wasn't for the roaming bands of dead, it might not be such a bad place.

Kerry Nietz

#3. Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

Charles Nodier

#4. It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

Charles Nodier

#5. To believe everything is to be an imbecile.
To deny everything is to be a fool.

Charles Nodier

#6. Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex."
"At least you know he's still available.

Cassandra Clare

#7. We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Steven Squyres

#8. After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.

Charles Nodier

#9. I let you go, Harold, because you were not mine and you never would be. You belonged to your wife.

Rachel Joyce

#10. After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.

Charles Nodier

#11. The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

Charles Nodier

#12. Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

Timothy Keller

#13. I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

Robert Byrd

#14. Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

Charles Nodier

#15. In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember ... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms? ...

Charles Nodier

#16. A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.

Charles Nodier

#17. A united Noxus could control the world - and would deserve to.

Darius I

#18. Literature is the expression of society.

Charles Nodier

#19. If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

Charles Nodier

#20. Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

Charles Nodier

#21. But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

Charles Nodier

#22. Outside the window as steam fogged up the bathroom mirror. The Punisher. That's what I'll call myself, and that is the name that they will fear. It will keep them up at night and have them all looking around

Sara Humphreys

#23. There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

Charles Nodier

#24. The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Cristina Saralegui

#25. I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

Elizabeth Zimmermann