C.L. Grant Quotes

Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.

Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?" "Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.

And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say: You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.

Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet.

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.

Failure to die is always appreciated.

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start.

At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.

He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.

I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.

I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit. (Shaun Mason)

Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.

There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

Do we have to have the 'don't lie to the telepath' talk again? It won't take long. I say 'don't lie to the telepath, it never works,' you glare at me, and then you go find something you can hit.

See, Quentin, that’s why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone.

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

She laughed like she'd just invented laughter.​

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." —Evelyn Baker