Tremayne Quotes

#1. What would you do if you ruled the world?" The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: "Even grammar?

Laurent Binet

#2. It's like a dream, but who cares? I want a dream. Right this minute, that's exactly what I want. Because reality has been pretty fucking crap for a while now.

S.K. Tremayne

#3. Yet they were so tempting. Because they all had those blissful views of the river. Mum liked to sit on her balcony, reading Swedish thrillers, drinking supermarket Chardonnay.

S.K. Tremayne

#4. Science has failed our mother Earth.

Serj Tankian

#5. We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.

S.K. Tremayne

#6. Everything you say is absolutely right - the death of those we love is so much worse than our own death, and yes all love is a form of suicide, you destroy yourself, you surrender yourself, you kill something in yourself, willingly, if you really love.

S.K. Tremayne

#7. Maybe nothing could extinguish the yearning of human love; maybe it travelled on for ever, through the darkness. Like the light from dead stars.

S.K. Tremayne

#8. You start off with a little spark, and it's whether or not you nurture that spark. You have to expand it and work on it

Ed Sheeran

#9. Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Lynd

#10. Having a kid is like an industrial revolution of the emotions. Suddenly you can mass produce worry, and guilt.

S.K. Tremayne

#11. My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

Elyn Saks

#12. It's not so much my own death that is intolerable, it's the death of those around me. Because I love them. And part of me dies with them. Therefore all love, if you like, is a form of suicide.

S.K. Tremayne

#13. Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Peter Tremayne

#14. He wanted to hurt his wife for what happened. Punish her. Hurt her badly.
Why not? his daughter was dead.

S.K. Tremayne

#15. I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

Peter O'Toole

#16. Start even if you don't know how.

Wendy Tremayne

#17. Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Orrin Woodward

#18. The candle is not lit
To give light, but to testify to the night.

Robert Bly

#19. I once read a survey that explained how moving is as traumatic as divorce, or as the death of a parent.

S.K. Tremayne

#20. Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?" he asked.
...
"Ask me again in the morning.

Donna Thurland

#21. They sailed into Raguza and Hal said, as bold as brass, We've come to challenge Zavac and we plan to kick his -

John Flanagan

#22. Perhaps I love happy endings because I have been created for one. Heaven.

Afton Rorvik

#23. The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.

Peter Tremayne

#24. Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.

J.A. Redmerski

#25. Let no one stand before we.

Tremayne Johnson

#26. It is a foolish judge who, before the evidence is presented, makes a judgement.

Peter Tremayne

#27. I know that compared to industries, corporations, and governments, an individual is insignificant. In measureable terms my actions hardly matter. But feeling tiny does not have to end at why bother.

Wendy Tremayne

#28. Please leave the stone on the seat, it is to keep out the mink.

S.K. Tremayne