Robert Carter > Robert's Quotes

“I want to live again. I want to live again. I want to live again.
Please God, let me live again.”
― Philip Van Doren Stern, It's a Wonderful Life

“I am told by my toad, Treacle, that Pangur Ban is the true lord of Wychwoode and a great friend of Gwydion. Has the cat not told you this himself yet?”
― Robert Carter, The Language of Stones

“He knew exactly how to make himself the center of attention, and he liked being there. He would have been magnetic at ten paces – right up close he was positively mesmeric”
― Robert Carter, Death Valley Scotty

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain