Rick Yancey Quotes

The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.

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• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Words
  • Kind
  • Simple

• Looks like that's the character of what we have right now.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Character

• God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Time
  • God
  • Experience

• Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Lost
  • Things
  • Find

• Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Happy
  • Chance
  • Treat

• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Spirit
  • Destiny
  • Wine

• I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Want
  • Humans
  • Race

• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Mind
  • Tea
  • Rude

• Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

  

  John Calvin
  • Knowledge
  • Find
  • Gos

• I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Happens
  • Happenings

• I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

  

  Rory Stewart
  • Magic
  • Walking
  • Leaving

• There's no question that I have always wanted to be mayor. I know I am strategically not supposed to be saying that, but I don't care.

  

  Angela Alioto
  • Care
  • Wanted
  • Mayor

• Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Values
  • Terrorism
  • Attack

• The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Attack
  • Imagined