P D James Quotes

P D James Quote of the day

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.

Every heart has its own melody.

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie.

The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs

The most talented people are always the nicest.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-" "Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too.

My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time.

I’m not sure I trust myself around you I liked you from the start, J.D. I really wish things had been different, that's all.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

General James Mattis is a storied and much-respected military leader.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine. - James Carstairs

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

Go in peace, James Carstairs.