Mimes Quotes

Quotes tagged as "mimes" Showing 1-11 of 11
Nick Harkaway
“I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.”
Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
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Jasper Fforde
“Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.”
Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Jasper Fforde
“Don't anyone move. . . I think we've driven into a mimefield.”
Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.”
Marcel Marceau

Catharine Arnold
“Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.”
Catharine Arnold, Necropolis: London and Its Dead

K.M. Mayville
“Yeah, I tried the whole conform to society thing once, and now I’m living in a mime’s worst nightmare. Lessons were learned.”
K.M. Mayville, The Glass Cloister

J.S. Mason
“which is why mimes are rarely invited to birthday parties, as the gifts they gave were usually invisible boxes.”
J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

Laird Barron
“I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety.”
Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Shirley Jump
“You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.”
Shirley Jump, Kissed by Cat

J.S. Mason
“this Mime here said to the others 'I wouldn’t talk if I were you' before their exam.”
J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

J.S. Mason
“but the Mime protested without talking and that were the kind of activists the racist misogynist homophobic xenophobic non-claustrophobic because he worked in a nightclub owner preferred as he agreed everyone had a voice as long as they didn’t speak with it.”
J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites