Quotes About Hamilton

Is your hair as soft as all those curls look? No.

Edward wonders why I'm so sympathetic to the monsters. The answer is simple. Because I am one.

Her dog Custard is a Pomeranian. He looks like a golden dandelion fluff with cat feet. Mrs.

This one is for all the Edward fans, who by their letters, questions, and sheer interest let me know that they were as interested in knowing more about him as I was.

I mean, who has a stuffed adult African elephant in their house? It was u-fucking-nique.

What could be more innocent? Biker Nuns from Hell, but besides that.

It does hurt my ego that you sit there all itty-bitty and cute as hell, and you must be more dangerous than I will ever be.

fear is not truly the same as respect. I'm learning that, at last.

safety. I wore a lot of sweaters in the winter, but tonight I'd wanted something dressier, and I was freezing my patooties off

would have been willing." "I mention it in passing, and you think seriously about it.

Who's that with you?' Stephen asked. 'Death,' I said. Edward bowed. 'Trust you to bring death to the ball, ma petite.

Peggy, that's my wife, she's a lycanthrope.

The idea was sort of amusing in a sociopathic sort of way, but I didn't want him dead.

The leopards call me their Nimir-Ra, leopard queen. Me and Tarzan, huh? I

It's too thick. Human blood is a little more watery than that, even heart blood.

The rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated." And the room exploded into noise.

In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early seasons in second-rate machinery, Hamilton walked into the equal best car on the grid. His first season none the less has, by any standards, been extraordinary.

I can close my eyes and start walking through 'Hamilton' at any given time, and I'll tear up because I remember day in and day out, eight shows a week, walking on stage, seeing everybody that I love.

With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so nimble in debate that even bright people sometimes felt embarrassingly tongue-tied in his presence.

The suspect nature of these stories can be seen in the anecdote Jefferson told of Hamilton visiting his lodging in 1792 and inquiring about three portraits on the wall. "They are my trinity of the three greatest men the world has ever produced," Jefferson replied: "Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, and John Locke." Hamilton supposedly replied, "The greatest man that ever lived was Julius Casar.

If he had wanted to impose a monarchy upon America, Hamilton said, he would follow the classic path of a populist demagogue: "I would mount the hobbyhorse of popularity, I would cry out usurpation, danger to liberty etc. etc. I would endeavour to prostrate the national government, raise a ferment, and then ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm.

Both Hamilton and Jefferson believed in democracy, but Hamilton tended to be more suspicious of the governed and Jefferson of the governors.

Washington quibbled with Hamilton on one or two points but otherwise stood in perfect agreement. His letter to Hamilton again corroborates what the Jeffersonians found difficult to credit: that Washington never shied away from differing with the redoubtable Hamilton but agreed with him on the vast majority of issues.

The prolific Hamilton was now writing pseudonymous commentaries on his own pseudonymous essays.