Top 100 Quotes About Piers
#1. He [Piers] might have been a goofy flake, but he was, in the end, her goofy flake, and she loved him as much as she could.
Craig Robertson
#2. Christine O'Donnell: Well, don't you think as a host, if I say "this is what I want to talk about", that's what we should address? Piers Morgan: Not really, no. You're a politician.
Christine O'Donnell
#3. Where did you go to school?" Piers inquired. "Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.
Eloisa James
#4. Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand.
Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland
Rainer Maria Rilke
#5. I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.
Jonathan Hickman
#6. Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
John Fowles
#7. The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#8. Piers took a leisurely look at Linnet. There was the beauty, sure enough. But it didn't detract from the intelligence in her eyes. And in his opinion the slightly cynical lilt in her voice just made her all the more beautiful, as if Aphrodite had been crossed with Athena.
Eloisa James
#9. There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?
Noel Gallagher
#10. The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it.
J.G. Ballard
#11. It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'
Lewis Black
#12. You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.
Lynne Truss
#13. I'm sure the next time Piers Morgan asks me to host his show again I will ask President Obama to be my guest.
Harvey Weinstein
#14. They continued on to London, and she's there, safe and sound, waiting for you.'
'You can't know for sure.' Piers swung up into the carriage.
'You will never know for sure if she's dead or alive unless you keep her near you all the time,' Sebastian said with perfect, if maddening, accuracy.
Eloisa James
#15. As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'
James Nesbitt
#16. A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
Victor Hugo
#17. I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.
Jane Hirshfield
#18. I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it."
"He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in.
"Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.
Eloisa James
#19. Only a few pages into "The Technologists" and Matthew Pearl already has written a gem about Boston:
"Then would come the view of the stretches of docks and piers ... then beyond that the State House's gold dome capping the horizon - the glittering cranium of the world's smartest city.
Matthew Pearl
#20. Harry had the best morning he'd had in a long time. He was careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunchtime, wouldn't fall back on their favorite hobby of hitting him.
J.K. Rowling
#21. Seducing highborn ladies, and raping peasant girls was a lark, but when Piers had suggested murder, he had thought him simply struggling with the frustration of losing for the first time in his life.
Bertrice Small
#22. Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.
William Langland
#23. I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.
David Cameron
#24. The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.
Robert Montgomery
#25. Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?
James Wolcott
#26. A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.
Steve Truglia
#28. When you have something you would die to protect it ceases to be a matter of courage." Niobe explained, "You just know what you have to do and you can't afford fear.
Piers Anthony
#29. When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
Piers Anthony
#30. There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
Piers Morgan
#31. All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
Piers Anthony
#32. I kind of think we have too many guns in this country,
Piers Morgan
#33. The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?
Piers Anthony
#34. I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.
Piers Anthony
#35. By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.
Piers Anthony
#36. Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.
Piers Anthony
#37. The sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
Piers Anthony
#38. We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.
Piers Corbyn
#40. But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.
Piers Anthony
#41. Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
Piers Anthony
#42. Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.
Piers Anthony
#43. I am Calumny Spinks.
Between me and the satin blue sky hangs the hempen noose.
It has swung there in the faintest of breezes, waiting for me, all my life.
Piers Alexander
#44. The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
Piers Anthony
#45. It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.
Piers Corbyn
#46. Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself.
Bink put his face in his hands and cried.
Piers Anthony
#47. Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was ... what he could do.
Piers Anthony
#48. Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
Piers Anthony
#49. What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights to not have your children killed at school?
Piers Morgan
#50. For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
Piers Anthony
#51. She looked around. "Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You!" And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. "And you." She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. "But not you," she decided, encountering the zombie.
Piers Anthony
#52. At first I was exhilarated by my freedom from the responsibility of the kingship. This lasted about seven minutes. I was also depressed by my freedom from marriage, for I had become accustomed to the attentions of a woman. This lasted about nine minutes. Then I was bored.
Piers Anthony
#53. There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.
Piers Morgan
#56. History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.
Piers Morgan
#57. Hell hath little fury like that of a critic who sees a writer make it big.
Piers Anthony
#58. I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart that this day would never come, but it has and we have to face it with courage and faith.
Piers Paul Read
#59. I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'
Piers Morgan
#60. Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
Piers Anthony
#61. What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it!
Piers Anthony
#62. Not any more. Not according to Glory Goblin or Brontes the Cyclops. Imbri merely confirms that Hugo has perfected his talent, and is now a good deal smarter and handsomer than before. A woman has to be responsible.
Piers Anthony
#63. Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
Piers Anthony
#64. I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.
Piers Morgan
#66. I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
Piers Anthony
#67. I don't care how the sin ledger stands. There seem to be a number of artificial standards of good and evil that don't really relate to true merit or demerit. Maybe the official system of classification has failed to keep up with the changing nature of our society.
Piers Anthony
#69. I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
Piers Anthony
#70. At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
Piers Anthony
#71. What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.
Piers Anthony
#72. I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
Piers Anthony
#73. Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.
Piers Morgan
#74. If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Piers Anthony
#75. Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done - that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
Piers Anthony
#76. For Indians, chai resolves most things, consoles for the things it can't.
Piers Moore Ede
#77. If you get made fun of working at Pier One Imports, you can't pelt them with poop.
Doug Stanhope
#78. It is the man who can't be trusted who does not trust others because he judges them by himself.
Piers Anthony
#79. A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.
Piers Anthony
#80. Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
Piers Anthony
#81. We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
Piers Anthony
#82. Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.
Piers Anthony
#83. Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
Piers Anthony
#84. One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Piers Anthony
#85. That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Piers Anthony
#87. What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried?
Piers Anthony
#88. Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
Piers Anthony
#89. One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
Piers Anthony
#90. Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings? ... Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?
Piers Anthony
#91. God created the earth but the Devil evolved it.
Piers Anthony
#92. There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.
Piers Morgan
#93. Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
Piers Corbyn
#94. I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
Piers Anthony
#95. Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.
Piers Anthony
#96. But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
Piers Anthony
#97. Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.
Piers Anthony
#98. People talk
they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
Piers Anthony
#99. The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.
Piers Corbyn
#100. If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
Piers Anthony
