Obadiah Quotes

#1. Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared.

Bernard Cornwell

#2. Look closer. The river's its own world of fast and slow, deep and shallow, bright and shadowed. If you look at it like that, like a landscape where the fish live, it'll be easier to catch one.

Cynthia Hand

#3. The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.

Martha N. Beck

#4. This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.

Lizz Winstead

#5. That's the first time you've said my name." He rubbed their lips together. "Whisper it again in my ear, then I'll go.

Tessa Bailey

#6. He who devotes himself to the Tao (seeks) from day to day to diminish (his doing).

Lao-Tzu

#7. It is in general the unexplored that attracts us ...

Murasaki Shikibu

#8. I'll smith for you," Gendry went to one knee before Lord Beric. "If you'll have me, m'lord, I could be of use. I've made tools and knives and once I made a helmet that wasn't so bad. One of the Mountain's men stole it from me when we was taken."
Arya bit her lip. He means to leave me too.

George R R Martin

#9. When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.

Takashi Miike

#10. I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.

Chang-rae Lee

#11. It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

Penelope Cruz

#12. Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way.

Michel Faber

#13. Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

Rudyard Kipling

#14. Servants honor their master by their service.

Franz Grillparzer

#15. Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

Ned Sublette

#16. You said that if I ever lost a finger, I'd cry like a baby. But I didn't. I cried like a man.

Meljean Brook