Book Quote by Robert Eggers

“There are not many secure hospitals that can boast someone who thought he was Napoleon, but St. Cerebellum’s could field three—not to mention a…

— Jasper Fforde

His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea.…

— Derek Tangye

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an…

— George Orwell

“He had an egglike head, froglike jaws, and a grey hairy fringe of aureole round the lower part of his face; the whole combined…

— G.K. Chesterton

“He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that…

— Washington Irving

His name is 'Mr. Spock.' And the first view of him can be almost frightening - a face so heavy-lidded and satanic you might…

— Gene Roddenberry

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

— Richard Paul Evans

“Our penultimate lot, ladies and gentlemen, exudes an air of mystical melancholy. The tooth itself is crocodilian, but its aura is almost angelic. Note…

— Valeria Luiselli

“I am trying now to re-create in my mind the picture of the man as I saw him in 1939- he, the revered author…

— Isaac Asimov

His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the…

— Anonymous

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as…

— V. S. Pritchett

“They’d tried to diagnose him but there was no apparent medical explanation for his behaviour. He was just what his mum called ‘away with…

— Eve Dangerfield