Thomas Harris quote: "But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs."

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
THOMAS HARRIS

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
THOMAS HARRIS

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; ...
THOMAS HARRIS

The way, I think, to make that happen is for the (Oktoberfest) leadership team to invite groups and ...
THOMAS HARRIS

Is there any sickness or disease that's too hard for God or believers [to heal]?
THOMAS HARRIS

They say he's a sociopath because they don't know what else to call him. He has some of the characte...
THOMAS HARRIS

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter
THOMAS HARRIS

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
THOMAS HARRIS

Starling knew what the malicious Dr. Lecter would say, and it was true: she was afraid there was som...
THOMAS HARRIS

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
THOMAS HARRIS

Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS

Suicide was Bloom's mortal enemy.
THOMAS HARRIS

They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are...
THOMAS HARRIS

I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.
THOMAS HARRIS

Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
THOMAS HARRIS

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
THOMAS HARRIS

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
THOMAS HARRIS

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in plac...
THOMAS HARRIS

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the ...
THOMAS HARRIS

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there ther...
THOMAS HARRIS

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, ...
THOMAS HARRIS

Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking h...
THOMAS HARRIS

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
THOMAS HARRIS

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
THOMAS HARRIS

Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.
THOMAS HARRIS

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by ...
THOMAS HARRIS

Hello Clarice...
THOMAS HARRIS

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears...
THOMAS HARRIS

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of...
THOMAS HARRIS

Silence can mock.
THOMAS HARRIS

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS

I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The fac...
THOMAS HARRIS

She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stra...
THOMAS HARRIS

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
THOMAS HARRIS

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
THOMAS HARRIS

Nothing made me happen. I happened.
THOMAS HARRIS

No existe misericordia en la Máquina verde; nosotros la creamos, fabricándola en las partes que ha...
THOMAS HARRIS

that there had to be a place in the world for Mischa, a prime place vacated for her, and I came to t...
THOMAS HARRIS

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps ou...
THOMAS HARRIS

En este extraño mundo, esta mitad del mundo que ahora está a oscuras, tengo que perseguir a un ser...
THOMAS HARRIS

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list...
THOMAS HARRIS

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleas...
THOMAS HARRIS

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or ...
THOMAS HARRIS

Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answ...
THOMAS HARRIS

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go...
THOMAS HARRIS

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.'
Because he got hurt?'
No, not ...
THOMAS HARRIS

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
JOANNE HARRIS

The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of sci...
SAM HARRIS

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and...
SAM HARRIS

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and...
SAM HARRIS

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one...
SAM HARRIS

On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely o...
SAM HARRIS

The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential change...
SAM HARRIS

Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teacher...
SAM HARRIS

One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next ...
SAM HARRIS

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiot...
SAM HARRIS

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilit...
SAM HARRIS

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transce...
SAM HARRIS

While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all ...
SAM HARRIS

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's point...
SAM HARRIS

I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessari...
SAM HARRIS

The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way i...
SAM HARRIS

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to coo...
KAMALA HARRIS

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do th...
KAMALA HARRIS

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
KAMALA HARRIS

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know ...
KAMALA HARRIS

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is ea...
KAMALA HARRIS

I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
KAMALA HARRIS

I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisio...
KAMALA HARRIS

So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
KAMALA HARRIS

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
KAMALA HARRIS

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are...
KAMALA HARRIS

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline a...
KAMALA HARRIS

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of...
KAMALA HARRIS

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that pho...
KAMALA HARRIS

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
KAMALA HARRIS

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly de...
KAMALA HARRIS

We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a persona...
KAMALA HARRIS

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstandin...
KAMALA HARRIS

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you'r...
KAMALA HARRIS

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it...
KAMALA HARRIS

The American dream belongs to all of us.
KAMALA HARRIS

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
KAMALA HARRIS

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying s...
MARVIN HARRIS

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London...
CALVIN HARRIS

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
RACHAEL HARRIS

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
RACHAEL HARRIS

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened,...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura L...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this ot...
RACHAEL HARRIS

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to imp...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my ever...
RACHAEL HARRIS

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to b...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
RACHAEL HARRIS

Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in ...
RACHAEL HARRIS

It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy....
RACHAEL HARRIS

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where e...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good...
RACHAEL HARRIS

When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic...
RACHAEL HARRIS

Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. ...
RACHAEL HARRIS

As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my hous...
RACHAEL HARRIS

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized n...
SAM HARRIS

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they w...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
NAOMIE HARRIS

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it wa...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have y...
NAOMIE HARRIS

Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food d...
NAOMIE HARRIS

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
NAOMIE HARRIS

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. Y...
NAOMIE HARRIS

Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates w...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
NAOMIE HARRIS

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn u...
NAOMIE HARRIS

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're gratef...
NAOMIE HARRIS

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and a...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for univers...
NAOMIE HARRIS

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th...
NAOMIE HARRIS

My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
NAOMIE HARRIS

Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
NAOMIE HARRIS

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
PAUL HARRIS

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered ...
SAM HARRIS

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
CHARLAINE HARRIS

I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. an...
CALVIN HARRIS

Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it.
AL HARRIS

It wasn't him. It was us. We did it. We weren't afraid of Randy. We hurt our damn selves. On that se...
AL HARRIS

I wish him the best of luck. Of course, I want to win the game.
AL HARRIS

I don't think they were attacking me. I think they were going to their guy.
AL HARRIS

They have some serious weapons. We're going to have our hands full on Sunday.
AL HARRIS

He was with Detroit. I'm pretty sure we have some film on him. But it's no secret what they do.
AL HARRIS

You've got to watch yourself.
AL HARRIS

Bad! We needed it to pick ourselves back up.
AL HARRIS

It's not going to get any easier for us. I mean, the schedule only gets tougher. We've got to find a...
AL HARRIS

[In the end, not even the magic of No. 4, combined with the solid play of a young defense that seeme...
AL HARRIS

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrit...
ED HARRIS

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessar...
ED HARRIS

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
ED HARRIS

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time...
ED HARRIS

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around an...
ED HARRIS

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
ED HARRIS

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
ED HARRIS

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
ED HARRIS

A lot of films come out before they're finished.
ED HARRIS

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn...
ED HARRIS

I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff d...
ED HARRIS

I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fasc...
ED HARRIS

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil...
ED HARRIS

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
ED HARRIS

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
ED HARRIS

I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In ter...
ED HARRIS

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it...
ED HARRIS

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
ED HARRIS

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administratio...
ED HARRIS

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
ED HARRIS

I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
ED HARRIS

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to g...
ED HARRIS

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was alm...
ED HARRIS

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much abou...
ED HARRIS

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
ED HARRIS

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS

We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was...
WOOD HARRIS

We really would need a transponder to improve tracking enough to firmly establish that an impact wou...
ALAN HARRIS

That is, we would still not know better than one-chance-in-five whether the impact would really occu...
ALAN HARRIS

Whether you could see it from the center of London is another matter.
ALAN HARRIS

However, to actually know what your seeing, a small telescope would be useful.
ALAN HARRIS

Yesterday, we had a great rain storm for about 15 to 30 minutes, which helped matters a lot. However...
ALAN HARRIS

I think my mom used to wonder, 'What are you saying when you're saying that?'
ALAN HARRIS

create more difficulty than solving the problem.
ALAN HARRIS

In a large telescope the motion would be perceptible against any stars in the field more or less in ...
ALAN HARRIS

Because of the nature of the orbit, we cannot predict thousands of years into the future for this ob...
ALAN HARRIS

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!
EMMYLOU HARRIS

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
EMMYLOU HARRIS

From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate ...
CALVIN HARRIS

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England ...
PAUL HARRIS

The real vibe with us, like everybody's saying, is that this is best team that has ever played footb...
AARON HARRIS

We can't play them any time soon anyway. I know we're not playing them next week.
AARON HARRIS

I could care less. Oklahoma wouldn't care.
AARON HARRIS

Our plan was to get him in situations where he's not comfortable. We just wanted to get to him and f...
AARON HARRIS

I signed up for it. It's going to be fun.
AARON HARRIS

I guess we'd feel like Auburn did last year. I guess I'd call them and ask them how they felt.
AARON HARRIS

We definitely see Tech on the same level with Oklahoma and Texas A&M.
AARON HARRIS

I'm tired of having to go home and hear about losing to them. You never want to lose to any team mor...
AARON HARRIS

He's like a disease. He's like an infection. He just spreads.
AARON HARRIS

I hated to see that because it wasn't us beating them. But you really don't want to put too much emp...
AARON HARRIS

The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly ...
ALYSIA HARRIS

A Woman's Question

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by t...
JOSHUA HARRIS

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolut...
CHARLAINE HARRIS

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as...
JOSHUA HARRIS

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
CHARLAINE HARRIS

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
CHARLAINE HARRIS

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

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But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

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