Stephen Leather Quotes

#1. Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. New York always brings out the serial killer in me. It's a great city to kill in. The best. You've got something like fifteen million people living cheek by jowl, and most of them couldn't give a damn about anyone else. No one wants to get involved. No one cares.

Stephen Leather

#3. her soul,' said Taban. He looked over at the next

Stephen Leather

#4. Sure, we're physically bigger and we have more money, but they reckon we're not much smarter than animals. They call us water buffaloes or monitor lizards. There's no bigger insult than to say that a person is an animal, and that's what they think we are. We're

Stephen Leather

#5. Her face is seamed with a million wrinkles like the map of a state where the geography hasn't settled down - rivers and canyons along her brown leather cheeks, ridges below the knob of her chin, the sinuous raised drumlin of bone at the base of her forehead, the caves of her eyes.

Stephen King

#6. God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

Bil Keane

#7. Smoking's good for you," said Nightingale. "It's packed with vitamins and minerals and has zero calories and fat." He gestured at the stairs. "It's exercise that's bad for you. Look what it's doing to me.

Stephen Leather

#8. In the Immortal word of Socrates...I drank what?

Form the movie Real Genius

Chris Knight

#9. I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Stephen Chow

#10. We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

Richard Leakey

#11. up the engines of all of them and began

Stephen Leather

#12. I opened the door of the Mercedes and got in. Man, that smell. It's leather, but not just leather. You know how, in Monopoly, there's a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card? When you're rich enough to afford a car that smells like Mr. Sharpton's gray Mercedes, you must have a Get-Out-of-Everything-Free card.

Stephen King

#13. Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?

Stephen Leather

#14. Jack stood by his shoulder, very much aware of the scent of Ullman's cologne. All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all came into his mind for no reason at all, and he had to clamp his tongue between his teeth to keep in a bray of laughter.

Stephen King

#15. God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

Anne Lamott

#16. Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

Neal A. Maxwell

#17. Baltimore's slogan was 'The City that Reads', but like the rest of its one million or so inhabitants Lori knew that was a pipedream; the city had one of the lowest literacy rates in the country, and along with illiteracy went a lack of morals.

Stephen Leather

#18. Jack Nightingale: "So I'm a hero?"
Supt. Chalmers: "No, Nightingale, you're an arsehole. But I can't arrest you for that.

Stephen Leather

#19. and time to think. He drove

Stephen Leather

#20. There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

Kim Edwards

#21. Organized Satanism was born in San Francisco on April 30, 1966.

Stephen Leather

#22. [As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.

Stephen Malkmus