Katherine Neville > Quotes

“Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“Only boring people are bored.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

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

“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

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

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

“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)”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“Nim unwrapped a loaf of fresh dilled rye bread and opened a crock of trout mousse. He slathered up a big slice and handed it to me. [...] We had thinly sliced veal smothered in kumquat sauce, fresh spinach with pine nuts, and fat red beefsteak tomatoes (impossibly rare at this time of year) broiled and stuffed with lemon apple sauce. The wide, fan-shaped mushrooms were sauteed lightly and served as a side dish. The main course was followed by a salad of red and green baby lettuce with dandelion greens and toasted hazelnuts.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“But Mathematics are music,' Bach replied. And the reverse is also true. Whether you believe the word 'music' came from 'Musa,' the Muses, or from 'muta,'...it makes no difference. If you think 'mathematics' came from 'mathanein,' which is learning, or from 'Matrix," the womb or mother of all creation, it matters not...”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“...We have to dare, to dare again, always to dare...!”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“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.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“the possible combinations were far more than the total number of stars in the known universe.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“Las musas tenían por costumbre aniquilar a los que inspiraban.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“Sevgili Courtiade," dedi. "İhanet yalnızca bir tarih meselesidir.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“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.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“Taktika se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada nešto može da se uradi. Strategija se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada ništa ne može da se uradi.

Savelij Tartakover (poljski velemajstor)”
― Ketrin Nevil, Osmica

“La táctica eran los movimientos que permitían tomar una posición, mientras que la estrategia era la forma en que se ganaba la partida.”
― Katherine Neville, El Ocho

“-Hay vida en todas partes, hasta en el fondo del mar. Y por todas partes la extingue la estupidez humana”
― Katherine Neville

“More music has been written about money than about love—and often, with a happier ending and a catchier tune.”
― Katherine Neville, A Calculated Risk

“I shall tell you how God destroyed the work of Nimrod, my friend. God confused the languages of the workers, which until then had been one language. He struck down the language. He destroyed the Word!”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“No basta con leer; es preciso comprender. Esa”
― Katherine Neville, El círculo mágico

“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 TARTAKOWER, Polish Grandmaster”
― Katherine Neville, The Fire

“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.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“to be cautious was to be wise.”
― Katherine Neville, The Tuesday Club

“You know what they say of revolutionaries—‘Once it is over, we must vanish, for the fire that destroys cannot build.”
― Katherine Neville, The Tuesday Club

“¿de qué sirve el idealismo cuando los ideales son falsos?”
― Katherine Neville, El fuego

“when it comes to this ancient wisdom, it isn’t enough to believe. One has to find out the truth.”
― Katherine Neville, The Fire

“knew, for it allowed the valiant Black Knight (in the guise of her father and tutor) to leap to the front over the heads of the other pieces, and take charge. After a daring Queen sacrifice that brought murmurs from the crowd and gave her the center board, it appeared that Solarin’s fearlessly aggressive little warrior would –at the very least –go over the Reichenbach Falls and take young Professor Azov with her in a deathlike embrace. But it wasn’t to be. There was a name for”
― Katherine Neville, The Fire

“el universo es como un enorme juego matemático que se juega a escala descomunal”
― Katherine Neville, El Ocho

“that”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight