The Wizard's Butler Quotes

“He nodded. “Oh, ambition. Yes. She has ambition by the bucket but she wants somebody else to carry the pail.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“He nodded with the devilish grin of a ten-year-old who knows he has a frog in his pocket but nobody else suspects.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“I think order depends more on preparation than control.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“We put names to things we don’t understand and tend to avoid the things with no names. It makes them no less real because we don’t believe in them.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“She has ambition by the bucket but she wants somebody else to carry the pail.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“Interrobang?” “Technically a question mark superimposed on an exclamation point?”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“Sometimes the things you like the most start out as things you’d never imagine actually doing.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“then,”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler: Book 1

“Hire a marketing research firm,” Shackleford said. “You’re working with deep pockets. I’ve always found that I can hire the expertise in areas in which I lack the background for much less than it would cost me to do it wrong.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler: Book 1

“Tell me, Mulligan. How do you like it? Working here, I mean.” “I find it quite soothing, sir.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“He sank into the story and let time pass unremarked.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“So if I told you, ‘Go learn something. Anything. It doesn’t matter what,’ what would you do?” Roger shook his head. “I don’t know.” “Nothing,” she said. “You might look around for something you always wanted to know, but without a use for that knowledge, without engaging your mind in it, it’s useless. It’s not exercising the parts of the brain that it needs to, to get the benefit. People just give up when it doesn’t keep their attention, or doesn’t seem as interesting as it might have been.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler: Book 1

“pride”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler: Book 1

“his reference materials suggested a red.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler: Book 1

“The world is magical, my boy. Always has been. We put names to things we don’t understand and tend to avoid the things with no names. It makes them no less real because we don’t believe in them.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“Money can’t replace the irreplaceable, but it provides a foundation to build a recovery on.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“Oh, yes. I was young and dumb and full of ... myself. I didn’t really think I’d live to 70, let alone 80.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler