Quotes from Katherine Neville

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

Only boring people are bored.

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. —Savielly Tartakover (Polish GM)

We have to dare, to dare again, always to dare...!

But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.' 'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God.

call God the Great Architect, because the first thing He designed was sound," Bach replied. "'In the Beginning was the Word,' you remember? Who knows? Perhaps it was not only a word. Perhaps it was music. Maybe God sang an endless canon of His own invention, and through it, the universe was wrought.

By the European Julian calendar it was already November 4, exactly one year and seven months from the date—dare she think of it—when she'd determined to withdraw the Montglane Service from its hiding place of a thousand years. But here in Russia, by the Gregorian calendar, it was only October 23.

to be cautious was to be wise.

la satisfacción del deseo implica también la muerte del deseo.

wish to find, let him be content to lose Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —MULAY AL'ARABI AD-DARQAWI, Rasa'il

Las musas tenían por costumbre aniquilar a los que inspiraban.

One should never eat les crustaces in months spelled without R—they may contain poison.

You know what they say of revolutionaries—'Once it is over, we must vanish, for the fire that destroys cannot build.

Hay vida en todas partes, hasta en el fondo del mar. Y por todas partes la extingue la estupidez humana