Quotes About Grendel

#1. Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

John Gardner

#2. They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.
'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

John Gardner

#3. In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

Seamus Heaney

#4. But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

Karl Rove

#5. Rene looked at Grendel. "What in the world is that?"
"That's our mutant attack poodle," I told her.
"Is he chewing on a gun?

Ilona Andrews

#6. When you read the poem, you wonder, what might Grendel have been? Could it have been a person that was turned away? Someone that was disfigured or deformed? Like everything else did, it came from somewhere. It's really exciting, and not knowing is part of the magic and mystery.

Kieran Bew

#7. I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

Ilona Andrews

#8. Kate sat at her desk. Grendel sprawled by her feet, an enormous black monstrosity that had more in common with the hound of the Baskervilles than with any poodle I had ever seen.

Ilona Andrews

#9. The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.

Ilona Andrews

#10. He was lost, captured by an innocent, destroyed by a would-be nun, and there was no way the monster, Simon of Navarre, Richard the Fair's Grendel, would ever be the same.

Anne Stuart

#11. We can get you a throne with snakes. I'll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It'll be great ...

Ilona Andrews

#12. I'm no superhero. If anything I'm Rorschach from Watchmen. I'm Grendel. I'm the survivor in Silent Hill.

Kendare Blake

#13. The basis of everything in the wizards' world rests upon the insight "All this is myself." Therefore, in accepting the world as it is, the wizard views everything in the light of self-acceptance, which is the light of love.

Deepak Chopra

#14. Who wouldn't want to be in 'Star Wars?' It'd be great.

John Boyega

#15. I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Glenn Beck

#16. People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it ...

Kevin Sorbo

#17. My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

John Gardner

#18. Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king's grave, tease, torment my wits toward meaningful patterns that do not exist.

John Gardner

#19. When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

Catherynne M Valente

#20. I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

John Gardner

#21. Who is that?"
"Your replacement."
"You replaced me with a shaved poodle?"
"He's got mad skills.

Ilona Andrews

#22. Who needed Prozac when a girl could get Pillsbury without a prescription?" ~Allie Shelby, Personal Assets

Kelsey Browning

#23. Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast.

Chauncey Brewster Tinker

#24. It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

John Gardner

#25. When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.

Andrew Dominik

#26. Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

John Gardner