Bernard Cornwell Quotes

He had been a tough, cheerful youngster, the sort who collected birds' eggs, scrapped with other boys and climbed the church tower on a dare, and now he was a tough cheerful young man who thought that being an officer in Lawford's regiment was just about the finest thing life could afford. He liked soldiering and he liked soldiers.

Bernard Cornwell

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• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Arts
  • Awards

• My hunger is always there.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Always
  • Hunger

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Security
  • Policy

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Help
  • Me
  • Psychological

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • Different
  • Family
  • Business

• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • Science
  • Poetry

• To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Work
  • American
  • True

• I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Ideas
  • More

• Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Earth
  • Me
  • Nobody

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Percent
  • Active

• I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Training

• On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Daughter
  • My Life
  • Relief

• Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Getting Happier

• Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.

  

  Shakira
  • People
  • Work

• He had been a tough, cheerful youngster, the sort who collected birds' eggs, scrapped with other boys and climbed the church tower on a dare, and now he was a tough cheerful young man who thought that being an officer in Lawford's regiment was just about the finest thing life could afford. He liked soldiering and he liked soldiers.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Life
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