St. Gregory Quotes

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment.

At my house I have a full-size time machine that I’ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at people’s faces when they walk into my office. They’re literally astounded.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.

To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

If you can't keep quiet, shut up!

Recruit for the future not just for the gap.

Doncaster will hit Villa with fire and broomstick.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

There's more learning than is taught in books.

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

I am too dark in my heart tonight.

I have learned the power of surviving.

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.