Quote

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

Thomas Harris

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas Harris
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 11
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Jackson
Tennessee
William Thomas Harris III
Storm
Fire
Simple
Lump
Evil
Lumps
Hail
Storms
Destructive
Acts

More quotes by Thomas Harris

Image
Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
Thomas Harris
Image
Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
Thomas Harris
Image
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.
Thomas Harris
Image
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
Thomas Harris
Image
Problem-solving is hunting it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris
Image
Nothing made me happen. I happened.
Thomas Harris
Image
I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.
Thomas Harris
Image
What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.
Thomas Harris
Image
I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
Thomas Harris
Image
One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
Thomas Harris
Image
When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
Thomas Harris
Image
God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
Thomas Harris
Image
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
Thomas Harris
Image
The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
Thomas Harris
Image
Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
Thomas Harris
Image
A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
Thomas Harris
Image
It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
Thomas Harris
Image
Intense fear comes in waves the body can't stand it for long at a time.
Thomas Harris
Image
We can only learn so much and live.
Thomas Harris
Image
I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
Thomas Harris