Quotes of: Character-assassination Keyword

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

Laurell K. Hamilton

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Michael Beschloss

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Indira Gandhi

Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city’s most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint

Brent Weeks

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

Henry Louis Gates

Carl: It's strange, isn't it, to think of oneself as an assassin? Avner: Think of yourself as something else then.

Munich

Tony Montana: [to Sosa's assassins] I'm Tony Montana! You fuck with me, you fuckin' with the best!

Scarface

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

Pierre Salinger

I stress character, character, character.

Maurice Sendak

In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps: "The method of searching the swamps is simple yet arduous. First, the troops assemble on the edge of bogs with names like Allen’s Creek, Scrub Swamp, and Atchall’...

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

What's your name?" he asked above the roar of the music. She leaned close. "My name is Wind," she whispered. "And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song." He chuckled a low, delightful sound. She was drunk and silly, ...

The Assassin and the Underworld

English Bob: [discussing the assassination of President Garfield] Well there's a dignity royalty. A majesty that precludes the likelihood of assassination. If you were to point a pistol at a king or a queen your hands would shakes as though palsied. ...

Unforgiven

Narrator: And so it went, Jesse was increasingly cavalier. Merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. He camouflaged his depressions and derangements with masquerades of extreme cordiality, courtesy, and goodwill towards others. But Even as he jested or tickl...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Wood Hite: Oh, I'm a good old rebel, Now thats just what I am, And for this yankee nation, I do no give a damn. I'm glad I fought a ganner, I only wish we won. I aint asked any pardon for anything I've done. I hates the yankee nation and eveything th...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Dorothy Evans: Why did you kill him? Robert Ford: Well, he was gonna kill me. Dorothy Evans: So you were scared and that's the only reason? Robert Ford: Yeah. And the reward money. [long pause] Dorothy Evans: Do you want me to change the subject? Rob...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

The Blind Assassin

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

The Blind Assassin

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

The Blind Assassin

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

The Blind Assassin

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

The Blind Assassin

He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

The Blind Assassin