| You Can't Coach That! A Work in Progress by Jennifer Raney |
| "Sir knight," said the outlaw, "we have each our secret. You are welcome to form your judgement of me, and I may use my conjectures touching you, though neither of our shafts may touch the mark they are shot at. But as I do not pray to be permitted into your mystery, be not offended that I preserve my own." |
| Locksley - Ivanhoe |
| "As the cheese grater, I reserve the right to eat the last nub of cheese." |
| Yours truely |
| "Benedecite, Sir Templar," replied De Bracy, "I pray you to keep better rule with your tongue when I am the theme of it. By the Mother of Heaven, I am a better Christian than thou and thy fellowship; for the bruit goeth shrewdly out, that the most holy order of the Temple of Zion nurseth not a few heretics within its bosom, and that Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert is of the number." |
| Maruice De Bracy - Ivanhoe |
| "Rebecca," said Bois-Guilbert, when he was left alone, "...why cannot I abandon thee to thy fate, as this calm hypocrite recommends? ... but beware of ingratitude! for if I am again repulsed, my vengeance shall equal my love." |
| Brian de Bois-Guilbert - Ivanhoe |
| "So many firsts. Yes. And so many deaths to win them." |
| Blackthorne's thoughts - Shogun |
| "Then she began to sing. At first soft, then trilling, soft again then louder, softer and sighing sweetly, ever sweetly, she sang of love and unrequited love and happiness and sadness." |
| Shogun |
| "Blackthorne watched. When it was finished he went home. There was a silence in his house and a pall over the village. A bath did not make him feel clean. Sake did not take away the foulness from his mouth. Incense did not unclog the stench from his nostrils." |
| Shogun |
| "Dont be fooled by our smiles and gentleness, our ceremonial and our bowing and sweetness and attentions. Beneath them all we can be a million ri away, safe and alone. For that's what we seek - oblivion." |
| Mariko - Shogun |
| "He had some moments. Had some other moments as well." |
| Al Michaels - about Brett Favre |
| "How do you think he gets through a day, you know, an ordinary day?" "I dunno, guess he just.. follows his body around." |
| My Dad - about a vagrant |
| "The shadows cast by the few lanterns he had placed seemingly at random made the small large and the insignificant rare, and the whole a perfect harmony." |
| Shogun |
| "All gone, like autumn leaves, all the future and the present, Crimson Sky and destiny." |
| "Oh how wonderful that would be! To mix our souls in death as a never-ending witness to our adoration of life." |
| Buntaro's thoughts - Shogun |
| Omi's thoughts - Shogun |
| "...rising with the satisfied air of a man who thinks he has an idea of his own because he has commented on the idea of another." |
| About Louis XVIII - The Count of Monte Cristo |
| "... a miracle of God placed me on the throne of my fathers... so that when I had attained my desires, the power I held in my hand should burst and break me! ... We have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing! ... Oh cruel fate! ... You do not know what ridicule is in France, yet you ought to know." |
| Louis XVIII - The Count of Monte Cristo |
| "... and a wave of the Emperor's hand brought down with a crash the whole edifice that was naught but an unsightly mass of ancient prejudices and new ideas." |
| The Count of Monte Cristo |
| "...my nerves are shot. I won't be able to relax until the only bunny left is the one sitting in your head working the controls." |
| Father Ted Crilly - Father Ted |
| "...while the sense of poetry that is in every sailor gave life to the dryness of figures and severity of lines." |
| The Count of Monte Cristo |
| "Alone! No longer to see, to hear the voice of the only human being that attached him to life! Would it not be better to seek his Maker, as Faria had done, to learn the mystery of life even at the risk of passing through the dismal gates of suffereing?" |
| Edmond's thoughts - The Count of Monte Cristo |
| "... his eyes had a look of deep sadness in them, and at times gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred would sparkle in their depths..." |
| About M. Noirtier - The Count of Monte Cristo |
| "The Count was staggered at these simple words... It was but a momentary glance, but the Count put so many thoughts into that one look that it seemed to Mercedes it lasted a century." |
| The Count of Monte Cristo |