The Day Of The Jackal Quotes

#1. He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

Frederick Forsyth

#2. I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

James Patterson

#3. A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

Rumi

#4. One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.

Tipu Sultan

#5. ...regardless of whether or not God actually exists, in my little world my experience of the Divine remains real and guides me in ways that I don't believe I would be guided if it were not real to me.

Vernon A. McGuffee II

#6. I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'

Zach Condon

#7. Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

James Cromwell

#8. A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#9. Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Bradley Chicho

#10. O Father, may our souls be like mirrors, which at once behold and reflect the glory of Christ.

Anthony J. Ruspantini

#11. Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.

Stevie Smith

#12. I give every page a lot of thought. Probably too much, these days. At the end of the day, you've gotta trust your gut and hope for the best.

Greg Capullo

#13. I see things . . . beautiful things . . .

Jonathan Stroud

#14. It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

Tipu Sultan

#15. Eli: In all these years I've been carrying it and reading it every day, I got so caught up in keeping it safe that I forgot to live by what I learned from it.

Book Of Eli Movie

#16. After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

Malcolm X

#17. My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle....

Charles Kennedy

#18. Our extroverted culture makes introverts feel despicable for wanting to be alone. Like thieves snatching something that doesn't belong to them, we have to "steal" a moment of solitude. If only introverts could see that we have a right to our alone time. We have a right to enjoy it too. Think

Michaela Chung

#19. To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

Rebecca Solnit