Starling Quotes

#1. I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.

Thomas Harris

#2. A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

Thomas Harris

#3. He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

Thomas Harris

#4. You'll be boarding the nine twenty-one commercial flight as Shirley and Roderick Cliphorn."
"Roderick Cliphorn?" Dan groaned. Only someone with a name like Sinead Starling would have considered that normal.

Peter Lerangis

#5. It was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

Thomas Harris

#6. Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.

Thomas Harris

#7. Sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are. People are different when you can smell them and see them up close. - Ben Starling

John Green

#8. But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps
deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

Thomas Harris

#9. WHEN STARLING was a child she moved from a clapboard house that groaned in the wind to the solid redbrick of the Lutheran Orphanage.

Thomas Harris

#10. He cleared his throat. "One good thing about the range, Starling, is there's no politics out there." "No?" "You were right to secure that garage up at Baltimore there. You worried about the TV?

Thomas Harris

#11. Crawford saw that in this place Starling was heir to the granny women, to the wise women, the herb healers, the stalwart country women who have always done the needful, who keep the watch and when the watch is over, wash and dress the country dead.

Thomas Harris

#12. Then put in the interior a roasted goose and into its belly a roasted hen and in the belly of the hen a roasted pigeon and in the belly of the pigeon a roasted starling and in the belly of this a small bird, roasted or fried.

Candida Martinelli

#13. Meanwhile in the valley, Alice was having a confusing conversation with a starling.

Steve Merrick

#14. Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account.
-Sinead Starling

Gordon Korman

#15. I thank God for what happened," Verger said. "It was my salvation. Have you accepted Jesus, Miss Starling? Do you have faith?

Thomas Harris

#16. Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

John Green

#17. Well, they're going to elect that Superman Hoover, and he's going to have some trouble. He's going to have to spend money, but it won't be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don't know anything about money.
[To his Secret Service man, Edmund Starling]

Calvin Coolidge

#18. It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

Thomas Harris

#19. Who are you anyway?" Krendler said. "You're not Starling. You've got the spot on your face, but you're not Starling.

Thomas Harris

#20. These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.

Philip Showalter Hench

#21. Mozart's pet starling once revised a phrase he wrote. The bird sang it after he played it on the piano, but changed all the sharps to flats. Mozart described it happening in the margin of the score. 'That was beautiful!' he wrote. When the bird died, he sang at its funeral, and read a poem to it.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#22. I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

Thomas Harris

#23. Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.

Thomas Harris

#24. Starling looked at Crawford steadily, but she was too still. "Hannibal the Cannibal," she said.

Thomas Harris

#25. In New York, the European starling - now a ubiquitous avian pest from Alaska to Mexico - was introduced because someone thought the city would be more cultured if Central Park were home to each bird mentioned in Shakespeare.

Alan Weisman

#26. Lovely," Nellie whispered. "A double-crosser wouldn't spend all this time gardening and planting flowers, would they?"
...
Sinead Starling opened the door.
"Ah," Nellie said. "I guess I was wrong.

Jude Watson

#27. It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought, it excited him to see her marked in this particular way. She couldn't tell. The sparks in his eyes flew into his darkness like fireflies down a cave.

Thomas Harris

#28. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.

Thomas Harris

#29. You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Anthony Hopkins

#30. They had me taking the fall for the raid, Mr. Crawford. For Evelda Drumgo's death, all of it. They were like hyenas and then suddenly it stopped and they slunk away. Something drove them off." "Maybe you have an angel, Starling." "Maybe I do. What did it cost you, Mr. Crawford?

Thomas Harris

#31. After a night of drinking, she would be a pale, starling-sized creature, but now, in this place, she is moonlight in heels.

Claire North

#32. The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course.

Haruki Murakami

#33. Dr. Lecter, erect as a dancer and carrying Starling in his arms, came out from behind the gate, walked barefoot out of the barn, through the pigs. Dr. Lecter walked through the sea of tossing backs and bloodspray in the barn.

Thomas Harris

#34. I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze
I cannot get out, said the starling

Vladimir Nabokov

#35. For me ... " the words seemed difficult for Alex to find, "getting to stay with you, to spend more time with you ... to love you the way
you should be loved, it's all I live for.

Angela Corbett

#36. Why do I write love stories? Because nothing else matters...

Ben Starling

#37. The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

Ernest Starling

#38. Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied.

A.G. Starling

#39. He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo's glorious statue come to life right here on court.

A.G. Starling

#40. For you. The reader. Smile.
Be yourself.
Don't try to be someone else, because you are awesome and beautiful just the way you are.
Be yourself, and strive to be the best you can be. Everything will be alright.

Maya Starling

#41. In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.

Ernest Starling

#42. Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

Robin Hobb

#43. I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

Marlon Starling

#44. Hearing from you makes me long for simpler times, but perhaps the attraction of the past is that it is over, and we can make of it what we will.

Starling Lawrence

#45. I'll always remember the day Daddy took me on a journey . . . the day history was made with one million men and me.

Kelly Starling Lyons

#46. Don't ever say that, Fennrys," she said. "I don't ever want to hear you say that you don't deserve or you aren't worthy. You do. You are.

Lesley Livingston