The House Of The Scorpion Quotes

#1. She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

Nancy Farmer

#2. To think is to say no.

Emile Chartier

#3. Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from.

Kat Dennings

#4. I keep smiling, giving Ash a little wink before turning around. Daemon stood there with two cups, one eyebrow arched.
"Bad little Kitten," he murmured.
Grinning, I stretch up and kissed him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. Finn stood away from all the water with his friend Dillard, who had taken the occasion to borrow one of his father's Hawaiian shirts. Finn thought he looked pretty cool.

Ridley Pearson

#6. I'm okay, you're okay. Now let's go to work.

Iyanla Vanzant

#7. We are here for a reason, but we land up pursuing something else, and end up having something completely different, which we never intended to start with.

Priya Kumar

#8. Be a master everywhere and wherever you stand is your true place.

Linji Yixuan

#9. You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

Bruce Lee

#10. It's interesting vocalizing something that is visual.

Seamus McGarvey

#11. My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.

Bresha Webb

#12. I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.

Joe Hill

#13. I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.

Herbert Hoover

#14. When my next door neighbor says, "Nope, never seen a scorpion in my house!" is when things start feeling all Amityville Horror around here.

Jennifer Fulwiler

#15. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

John Lennon