Katherine Neville quotes

“Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”
-- Katherine Neville

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.135, Open Road Media

#Civilization Quotes #Power Of Music Quotes #Universe Quotes

“Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.”
-- Katherine Neville

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “A Calculated Risk: A Novel”, p.56, Open Road Media

#Breathing Quotes #Requirements Quotes #Privacy Quotes

“Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.”
-- Katherine Neville

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.176, Open Road Media

#Two Quotes #Bird Quotes #Stones Quotes

“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”
-- Katherine Neville

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.57, Open Road Media

#Way Quotes #Inspired Quotes #Killing Quotes

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

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.134, Open Road Media

#Peculiar Quotes #Study Quotes #Deny Quotes

“Only boring people are bored.”
-- Katherine Neville

#People Quotes #Bored Quotes #Boring Quotes

“Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.”
-- Katherine Neville

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.”
-- Katherine Neville

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “A Calculated Risk: A Novel”, p.91, Open Road Media

#Beautiful Quotes #Law Quotes #Chess Quotes

“If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.”

“Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.”

“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”

“CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.”

“The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.”

“Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”

“It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.”

“What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.”

“We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.”

“Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.”

Source : Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan