Pd James Quotes

#1. The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

Sam Waterston

#2. There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.
There's a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean
a river dried to its bed

Charles Simic

#3. Guns are bad, I tell you.

Eminem

#4. I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

Edward Said

#5. I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe ...
Polly Baker

Benjamin Franklin

#6. She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

Frank Herbert

#7. Where God resides; there are no human beings.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#8. All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

P.D. James

#9. I've only ever known one person who could tolerate this who wasn't a native of Pamarthe." "Captain Solo?" Joph said, without lifting his face from the table. Leia shook her head. "Chewbacca - a Wookiee friend of ours. Han would never touch this.

Claudia Gray

#10. Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

P.D. James

#11. What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

P.D. James