“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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“Don’t shoot me, Sidney, I love you.”
He had shot him right through the words that still haunted him today, the most perfect words ever said to him.”
― James Purdy, quote from Narrow Rooms
“cost reductions meant survival, but not profitability,”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
“Friendship, true friendship is a curious dance. Why does one recognize and embrace one soul and yet not another. What is that? That something unspoken. Perhaps it is a long ago remembrance of another time, another place, those same familiar eyes shining out. Always we are searching for those recognizable eyes…so that we might at last be recognized ourselves.”
― Karen Kondazian, quote from The Whip
“When my words are concealed
With lies and disguises, truth and beyond
Insecurities in the veil of trust
Betrayal in bounds of lies
It’s just the charm of words darling
Giving the illusion of happiness inside misery”
― Irum Zahra, quote from Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black
“I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.”
― Douglas Coupland, quote from Eleanor Rigby
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