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Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel Johnson


J.J. McAvoy

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SAMUEL JOHNSON The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes...
WALTER BAGEHOT A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will ...
WILLIAM COWPER Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .
WILLIAM BARNES God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given y...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES My name,” I whispered in her ear, and she shivered with pleasure. “Say my name again. Not in ang...
J.J. MCAVOY Liam, soon-to-be-fucking-dead, Callahan was walking down the stairs—my fucking stairs—with his s...
J.J. MCAVOY She looks like a sweet little lamb from afar, but when you get close, you find out she skinned and a...
J.J. MCAVOY Tell me it wasn’t fucking you, and you still get to come to the motherfucking wedding sweetheart.....
J.J. MCAVOY They're her parent," Neal finally spoke out. "Regardless of what they've done, they're still her par...
J.J. MCAVOY Father, I'd rather die at your hands than at Liam's...or worse, Mel's. Give me one second to tell yo...
J.J. MCAVOY I swear to God . . .”
“God doesn’t come to this part of the house, so swear to me.” -Li...
J.J. MCAVOY and damn well no 5-0 with his Smokey the Bear looking sidekick, will ever tell me differently.
J.J. MCAVOY One day you could be sitting on the top of the world, then the next it could be sitting on you,
J.J. MCAVOY before. I’m so in charge I could be the fucking Energizer bunny.
J.J. MCAVOY She looks like a sweet little lamb from afar, but when you get close, you find out she skinned and a...
J.J. MCAVOY One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow.” ~ Monsieur Verdoux
J.J. MCAVOY She was mine. She was all fucking mine.I was the king of the jungle, and the woman beside me was my ...
J.J. MCAVOY God needs me. What would happen if there weren’t people like me? If the world were perfect, if eve...
J.J. MCAVOY I loved being dominated in such a beastly sexual way. How his hands, lips and tongue all grabbed on ...
J.J. MCAVOY When she reached me, she stopped and kissed my father on the cheek before taking my hand. However, w...
J.J. MCAVOY Some rats just don’t know when to die.
J.J. MCAVOY Liam, get your horny fucking ass out of bed and help me kill a bitch!” she yelled.
J.J. MCAVOY He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the ...
J.J. MCAVOY A Taser? Really? What are you, a mall cop?
J.J. MCAVOY I’m not now, nor shall I ever be, any man’s arm candy.
J.J. MCAVOY There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY I am trying! You are closer to me that anyone else Liam.”
“That would be enough, if everyon...
J.J. MCAVOY Every last person we kill is for family. If we do not kill them, they kill us. It’s the way of the...
J.J. MCAVOY Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, to...
J.J. MCAVOY She fucking shot me. I had been so shocked and horny that my mind couldn’t even comprehend what ha...
J.J. MCAVOY Interesting does not even begin to cover what happened today.” I said.
“My fiance shot me ...
J.J. MCAVOY She is. . . she is Bloody Melody and perfect. God created her and then shattered the mold afterward,...
J.J. MCAVOY I want you to love me.” I said softly. “But if not, then I want to be the closest thing to you l...
J.J. MCAVOY That ticks me off!” She snapped. “Since when could you bribe me with treats like a fucking child...
J.J. MCAVOY Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...
J.J. MCAVOY During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves star...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.
RENEE AHDIEH The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as ...
JONATHAN GALASSI If they had (Johnson) it would be them and the rest of us.
DENNIS DACUS To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JOHNSON If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.
CHARLES DICKENS One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ...
MICHAEL FROME Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflic...
THOMAS GRAY If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 [Dr. Johnson to a Q...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done.
RENEE AHDIEH Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art...
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN You shall not pile, with servile toil,/ Your monuments upon my breast,/ Nor yet within the common so...
EDWARD EVERETT Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. P...
GRETCHEN RUBIN It felt like every time that a 3 went in that it was a dagger in your back. It takes the wind right ...
BRUCE BAILEY Witches seek the sacred knowledge the rest of the world has already forgotten.
DACHA AVELIN Until the axle break That keeps the stars in their round, And hands hurl in the deep The banners of ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast,
Full of sad experience, moving ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The ...
OSCAR WILDE The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
THOMAS PAINE Cross you heart, hope to die. Stick a needle in your eye. Jam a dagger in your thigh. Eat a horse ma...
NANCY CARTWRIGHT A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDEN Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He lea...
HELEN KELLER re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults y...
WALT WHITMAN A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLE Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leav...
JOHN WEBSTER If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe no...
HUMPHREY BOGART We wanted to make a run to put the dagger in. Coach told us to put the dagger in play by play.
BRADLEY STARKS There are times on Earth when extraordinary consciousness invades everyday life. There are times on ...
JACOB NORDBY As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying w...
NATASHA LYONNE No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man...
THOMAS CARLYLE It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolong...
COCO CHANEL Be sure to pick up any debris left over from the winter. This may include fallen limbs, leaves and l...
CHRIS GOODMAN That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.
CHARLES F. DEEMS The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyles...
JAMES THOMSON (1) He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
EDWIN EDWARDS Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned...
FRANCINE PROSE In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leave...
AMIT RAY No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No bloody streamlet ...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ...now open your mind by closing your eyes
see the unseen world within you which lies

MUNIA KHAN In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions o...
JAMES PAYN These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just ...
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with The rose leave...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Piracy is a dagger in the heart of a growing Russian film industry.
DAN GLICKMAN Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
DR. RICHARD SELZER Throw your arm around the young man and his family, ... Let them lean on you. J.J. would say it's ok...
HENRY JACKSON Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and asha...
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.
EDMOND HARACOURT The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things— this is evidence of human stupidity.
C. JOYBELL C. When you live in love and light, you will not go unseen; ignite the world with every flame of your b...
ALEXANDRA ELLE If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS

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