“Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. —Savielly Tartakover (Polish GM)”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“Nim unwrapped a loaf of fresh dilled rye bread and opened a crock of trout mousse. He slathered up a big slice and handed it to me. [...] We had thinly sliced veal smothered in kumquat sauce, fresh spinach with pine nuts, and fat red beefsteak tomatoes (impossibly rare at this time of year) broiled and stuffed with lemon apple sauce. The wide, fan-shaped mushrooms were sauteed lightly and served as a side dish. The main course was followed by a salad of red and green baby lettuce with dandelion greens and toasted hazelnuts.”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“Taktika se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada nešto može da se uradi. Strategija se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada ništa ne može da se uradi.
Savelij Tartakover (poljski velemajstor)”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“But Mathematics are music,' Bach replied. And the reverse is also true. Whether you believe the word 'music' came from 'Musa,' the Muses, or from 'muta,'...it makes no difference. If you think 'mathematics' came from 'mathanein,' which is learning, or from 'Matrix," the womb or mother of all creation, it matters not...”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“Sevgili Courtiade," dedi. "İhanet yalnızca bir tarih meselesidir.”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“...We have to dare, to dare again, always to dare...!”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.'
'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God.”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
“Las musas tenían por costumbre aniquilar a los que inspiraban.”
― Katherine Neville, quote from The Eight
Katherine Neville
Born place: in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States
Born date April 4, 1945
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“This book is cheerfully dedicated to those greatest and most heroic of all human endeavors, WAR and WARFARE; may they never cease to give us the pleasure, excitement and adrenal stimulation that we need, or provide us with the heroes, the presidents and leaders, the monuments and museums which we erect to them in the name of PEACE.”
― James Jones, quote from The Thin Red Line
“I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening."
"What stopped you?"
"I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all the blood on the sheets."
"Montgomery would never be something as uncouth as pissed off. Annoyed in an icily genteel manner, perhaps.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Legion
“I’ve said more nonsex words to Harlow in the past five minutes than I did the entire time she was in Canada, but I’m surprised to find that not only is she easy to talk to, she’s fun. “And, my impression of you is ever evolving, now that you aren’t just a pretty face in my lap.”
“You’re one classy motherfucker, Finn.”
“This speaking thing does wonders for expanding our horizons.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Dirty Rowdy Thing
“Cîteodatã, cînd nu pot s-adorm, mã gîndesc: «Doamne, tu ne-ai dat pãduri nesfîrsite, cîmpii cît vezi cu ochii, zãri fãrã de margini, si trãind în ele, ar fi trebuit sã fim si noi niste uriasi...»”
― Anton Chekhov, quote from The Cherry Orchard
“Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, quote from Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
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