Reptile Room Quotes

#1. THE REPTILE ROOM

Lemony Snicket

#2. As he has promised, no harm has come to the Baudelaire orphans in the Reptile Room, but great harm had come to Uncle Monty.

Lemony Snicket

#3. The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#5. The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

H.W. Brands

#6. I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

Xavier Niel

#7. She sat in her chair and looked around the room. What should she take with her? The antique chatrang board her predecessor had given her? Her mummified baby alligator, which she had on the theory that every sorcerer's lair should have a mummified reptile of some kind?

Tim Pratt

#8. You shudder beneath the orange glow, the wet reptile streets, while heading back to the muted torture of your dirty room, where some cruel memory sours the walls, viciously, like wisps of a flaming hell.

Brian Alan Ellis

#9. In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

Cynthia Kadohata

#10. The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

Aristotle.

#11. There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

#12. Some of us, no matter how hard we try, aren't meant to lead ordinary lives. Fate finds us. Gives us a shove.

Kathleen Tessaro

#13. I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

Ken Hensley

#14. There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Baron De Montesquieu