Graeme Reynolds Quotes

this creature moved on all fours. Long, pointed ears lay flat against the monster's head. The long, tapered snout was wrinkled into a snarl, lips pulled back to reveal two rows of razor-sharp fangs. Muscles moved like liquid beneath the layers of coarse, black fur. Terrible clawed feet, each toe ending with a black, curved talon that wrapped around the stairs, splintering the wood. ~ Graeme Reynolds

The coppery stink of blood combined with the sickly sweet smell of rotting leaves, and the result was not pleasant. ~ Graeme Reynolds

The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or artful play of little lights, or an attention to a variety of tints is to be avoided; a quietness and simplicity must reign over the whole work, to which a breadth of uniform and simple color will very much contribute. ~ Joshua Reynolds

No one could replace her for me, even if all I was holding onto was a memory. ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds

But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege, and desires, from mere impatience of labour, to take the citadel by storm. They wish to find some shorter path to excellence, and hope to obtain the reward of eminence by other means, than those which the indispensable rules of art have prescribed. ~ Joshua Reynolds

I'm going to be your best friend. ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading. ~ Debbie Reynolds

I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce. ~ Ryan Reynolds

If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right". If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air. ~ Burt Reynolds

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids. ~ Graeme Le Saux

She loved sarcasm, especially from engineers. ~ Alastair Reynolds

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I DO have the heart of a lion. ~ Burt Reynolds

Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average. ~ Ryan Reynolds

I accepted that I was wired differently than most people, or, more precisely, that my wiring was toward one end of a spectrum of different human configurations. My innate logical skills were significantly greater than my interpersonal skills. ~ Graeme Simsion

There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house. ~ Ryan Reynolds

I would normally have scheduled my driving time according to published studies on fatigue and booked accommodation accordingly. But I had been too busy to plan. Nevertheless, I stopped for rest breaks every two hours and found myself able to maintain concentration. At 11.43 p.m., I detected tiredness, but rather than sleep I stopped at a service station, refuelled, and ordered four double espressos. I opened the sunroof and turned up the CD player volume to combat fatigue, and at 7.19 a.m. on Saturday, with the caffeine still running all around my brain, Jackson Browne and I pulled into Moree. ~ Graeme Simsion

When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest. ~ Edward Reynolds

Cast out thy Jonah
every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit. ~ Frederic Reynolds

God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him.
(on Michael Owen) ~ Graeme Souness

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce. ~ Debbie Reynolds

His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold. ~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Erasmus's Bible-saturated mind. His was a mind too broad for fundamentalism, which rejects reason, and too honest for intellectualism, which rejects revelation. ~ John Mark Reynolds

Thinking ish-ly allowed ideas to flow freely. ~ Peter H. Reynolds

We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba."
"That sounds ... compelling," the physician allowed. ~ Alastair Reynolds

Do you have to sound so damned indifferent to it all? Here we are talking about how we're likely to be dead in a few hours and you're acting like it's only a minor inconvenience.
~"Spirey & the Queen ~ Alastair Reynolds

I'm in like with you," I tell him, getting lost in his eyes.
"Yeah?" His eyebrow rises and he kisses my forehead. "I'm in a whole lotta like with you too, baby. ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds

Happiness is wanting what you have. ~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

We don't own them, and we don't have any claims on moral superiority. But after all we've done to them in the past we do have an obligation to shepherd them through to better times.' He ~ Alastair Reynolds

So she talked, and Noah, to his credit, did not quibble. He interrupted once or twice, but only for the sake of amplification or clarification, never because he doubted the essential veracity of her story. She told him all of it, from the pod, to the aircraft, to Eunice and the Tantors. She told him what she had learned of Eunice's nature, and why she had no reason to doubt that she had been talking to a machine. She told him of Eunice's amnesia, and the thing called Arachne. ~ Alastair Reynolds

I was suddenly angry. I wanted to shake not just Lydia but the whole world of people who do not understand the difference between control of emotion and lack of it, and who make a totally illogical connection between inability to read others' emotions and inability to experience their own. ~ Graeme Simsion

God Makes No Mistakes He Makes Divine Executive Decisions ~ Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

Evidence is now available to indicate that the 14-to-18- year-old group is an increasing segment of the smoking population. RJR-T must soon establish a successful new brand in this market if our position in the industry is to be maintained over the long term. ~ R. J. Reynolds

I had little contact with people outside academia and had formed my assumptions about the rest of the world primarily from watching films and televisions as a child. I recognised that the characters in 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' were probably not representative of humans in general. ~ Graeme Simsion

I looked again at the nighttime view of the city - the view I had never seen before even though it had been there all the time. ~ Graeme Simsion

The incarnation (becoming flesh) of God is at the very center of the gospel event by which God restores the true relationship between himself and the human race. ~ Graeme Goldsworthy

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention ... ~ Joshua Reynolds

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. ~ Graeme Simsion

But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast. ~ Alastair Reynolds