Kenneth Oppel quotes: top famous quotes and sayings by Kenneth Oppel

Top Kenneth Oppel Quotes

Browse top 56 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Kenneth Oppel.

Favorite Kenneth Oppel Quotes

1. "Let me get you all some punch," I said."You're leaving us?" said Isabel, sounding panicky."I'll be right back," I promised. "If anyone comes near you, just scream and run." ~ Kenneth Oppel

2. "Individuality: ten. Cautiousness: three. Combativeness: nine." She looked over and gave me a wink. "Well, what did you expect from a pirate's daughter? Hope: eight. Amativeness. What's that?"Kate acutally blushed. "I think it has something to do with your attractiveness to the opposite sex.""Ten," said Nadira, smiling modestly. (Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel)" ~ Kenneth Oppel

3. "The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!" ~ Kenneth Oppel

4. "You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori" ~ Kenneth Oppel

5. "I'm glad being shipwrecked appeals to you.""Captain Walken made a point of avoiding that word." "Well, he was trying to keep everyone jolly, wasn't he. It's no good having everyone running around screaming and eating each other.""I wouldn't run around screaming," she said. "I can see eating someone in a pinch, though. If it really came down to it, I mean.""I don't doubt it.""Come on, Matt Cruse, don't you find it just a bit exciting, being here?""No."She looked at me as if I'd suggested we stop breathing for a few hours." ~ Kenneth Oppel

6. "I stared at Kate in disbelief. "I know, I know," she said, walking toward me, hands raised as if to calm a dangerous beast. "She's not coming," I said."She's coming.""She can't.""She's coming." ~ Kenneth Oppel

7. "You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious." ~ Kenneth Oppel

8. "Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim." ~ Kenneth Oppel

9. "The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream." ~ Kenneth Oppel

10. "When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary." ~ Kenneth Oppel

11. "Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky." ~ Kenneth Oppel

12. "It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom." ~ Kenneth Oppel

13. "The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language." ~ Kenneth Oppel

14. "We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature." ~ Kenneth Oppel

15. "I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel." ~ Kenneth Oppel

16. "We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!"Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts.""Big doubts?" I said weakly.The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said." ~ Kenneth Oppel

17. "The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white." ~ Kenneth Oppel

18. "Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me." ~ Kenneth Oppel

19. "We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway." ~ Kenneth Oppel

20. "Behind us I saw the water, still welling up from the tunnel, curving round in a frothing serpentine torrent to plunge down the other descending passage. For a moment we all sat there and watched, numb and exhausted." ~ Kenneth Oppel

21. "Oh, hello, Matt,' she said, not looking altogether thrilled to see me. 'This is James Sanderson.''Pleased to meet you,' I lied." ~ Kenneth Oppel

22. "Marry me." I said.She lowered her teacup, shaking slightly, to the saucer. "Aren't you going to get down on one knee?"I got down on one knee and took her hand."Will you marry me, Kate?"You can't propose properly without a ring." She said.I reached into my pocket and took out James Sanderson's ring, which I'd picked up off the floor of the Starclimber when we'd crash landed."That's a nice looking ring." said Kate with a grin."Cost a fortune." I said. "And now, for the third time. Kate de Vries, will you marry me?"She leaned forward and took my face in her hands and kissed me."Yes," "Yes, and yes and yes. But it will probably be terrible.""Probably," I agreed."Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other."I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said." ~ Kenneth Oppel

23. "But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do." ~ Kenneth Oppel

24. "I poo poo the chit.'The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!'I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.'We'll walk." ~ Kenneth Oppel

25. "If my heart were a compass, you'd be North." ~ Kenneth Oppel

26. "I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it.""It's very zingy," I agreed." ~ Kenneth Oppel

27. "Bloody Hell!" ~ Kenneth Oppel

28. "I raised my hands, trying to shush her."Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed." ~ Kenneth Oppel

29. "You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good." ~ Kenneth Oppel

30. "Why do you need to fly so much?" she asked."If I don't, it'll catch up with me." The words just came out."What will?"I took my hands from my face, panting. I stared out at the storm."Unhappiness." ~ Kenneth Oppel

31. "This way," she said, veering toward the roof's edge. "Can you jump?""Oh, I can jump!""Then jump!" ~ Kenneth Oppel

32. "If you were closer, I'd slap you," she said. "Let me help," I replied, and stepped closer. She promptly slapped me, which surprised me only a little. We glared at each other in the near dark, and then she looked away. "I'm sorry I slapped you," she said. "That's all right. I quite enjoyed it." ~ Kenneth Oppel

33. "You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you." ~ Kenneth Oppel

34. "His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him." ~ Kenneth Oppel

35. "Everyone watched, wondering if this could be the same lunatic who'd nearly berthed his ornithopter in the restaurant. I swallowed, for it seemed he was headed straight for my table. He pulled off his helmet and a mass of dark auburn hair spilled out. Off came the goggles, and I was looking at the beaming face of Kate de Vries." ~ Kenneth Oppel

36. "I had no idea there'd be so many Sherpas aboard!" exclaimed Miss Simpkins."I'm not a Sherpa," Nadira said. "I'm a gypsy.""Oh, my goodness!" said the chaperone." ~ Kenneth Oppel

37. "IMBECILE!" the chef shouted. "Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand, or maybe your FACE! I arrange the food on plates with care, are you understanding what I am telling you? It is part of the art form of cooking, yes? A lovely plate of food is a thing of beauty! And then you, NUMBSKULL, come along and put your fat greasy FINGERS all over my plate, and SHAKE the plate, and move my food all around the plate until it looks like pigs' vomit!""Chef Vlad!" I cried out in delight." ~ Kenneth Oppel

38. "The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love." ~ Kenneth Oppel

39. "I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction." ~ Kenneth Oppel

40. "The sky pulsed with stars. Some people say it makes them lonesome when they stare up at the night sky. I can't imagine why. There's no shortage of company. By now there's not a constellation I can't name. Orion. Lupus. Serpens. Hercules. Draco. My father taught me all of their stories. So when I look up I see a galaxy of adventures and heroes and villains, all jostling together and trying to outdo one another, and I sometimes want to tell them to hush up and not distract me with their chatter. I've glimpsed all the stars ever discovered by astronomers, and plenty that haven't been." ~ Kenneth Oppel

41. "Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What exactly do you have?"For the first time Kate looked flustered." ~ Kenneth Oppel

42. "I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery." ~ Kenneth Oppel

43. "I glanced over at him warily. "Don't start getting any ideas about her. The last time someone took a fancy to Kate, things went very badly for him.""What happened?""He got shot.""You shot him?""Well, no, but he did get shot." ~ Kenneth Oppel

44. "I'm just trying to spare you hurt. Her love for Konrad is like the foundation of the earth." "The earth sometimes shifts." ~ Kenneth Oppel

45. "Traveling at night toward the stars, I thought yet again how very far away they were, and how you could travel your whole lifetime and never reach even the closest one. But even if you knew you couldn't have something, it didn't stop you wanting it. I wondered if Kate was to be my star, and I'd spend my life gazing upon her but never reaching her." ~ Kenneth Oppel

46. "No, indeed, 'pig' is very expressive. And an excellent description of a fellow who flirts with his brother's beloved." ~ Kenneth Oppel

47. "I whirled to see the snake springing up from the ferns and bouncing towards us, fast. This time we turned and ran. Every time I looked around, the snake was still there. I wanted to laugh and scream at the same time. The little creature was ridiculous. It was terrifying, and it was also gaining on us." ~ Kenneth Oppel

48. "I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were." ~ Kenneth Oppel

49. "They're having a liaison!' the woman in the big hat said to her friend. 'They've found love in a jail cell...''There's no liaison!' I said angrily." ~ Kenneth Oppel

50. "'I really don't see what all the fuss is about, Sir Hugh,' said Kate with a polite smile. 'As a man of science you should know that urine is sterile. It's only when it's left to stand that it accumulates bacteria. So, if I were you, Sir Hugh, I'd eat my soup quickly.'" ~ Kenneth Oppel

First «12 »Last

Kenneth Oppel Quotes Pictures

Kenneth Oppel Quotes

Kenneth Oppel Quotes

Kenneth Oppel Quotes

<< Betty Hart Quotes

Terry McAuliffe Quotes >>

Today's Quote

We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things. I was born into it; we all were. But we may not feel the ties unless we gain intimacy by seeing, feeling, smelling, touching and studying the natural world. Trying to live in harmony with the dictates of nature is probably as inspirational as living in harmony with the Koran or the Bible. Perhaps it is also a timely undertaking."
Author: Bernd Heinrich

What Did Kenneth Oppel Talk About?

Famous Authors

Sid Waddell Quotes (11 sayings)
Pramukh Swami Maharaj Quotes (1 sayings)
Bede Jarrett Quotes (1 sayings)
Van Morrison Quotes (34 sayings)
Elizabeth Sharp Quotes (4 sayings)
Florence King Quotes (28 sayings)
Emm Gryner Quotes (4 sayings)
Al Alvarez Quotes (9 sayings)
Nicole Sobon Quotes (34 sayings)
Doreen DeVore Quotes (1 sayings)

Popular Topics