The Starling Quotes

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

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Thomas Harris

#5. 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

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

Steve Merrick

#7. 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

#8. 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

#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. 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

#11. 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

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

Thomas Harris

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

Thomas Harris

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Thomas Harris

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Thomas Harris

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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