Bernard Cornwell Quotes
All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
-
No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
-
The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
-
You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
-
If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
-
I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
-
My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
-
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
-
The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.
-
And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
-
As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.
-
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
-
Today you have this horrible alliance between the far left and the Islamists and they’re using the modern media tool to shut people like me out by smearing us.'
-
I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along for the ride... So when anybody tries to take that away from me, or impede that, I get defensive.
-
We all know the wonders of Skype, but there's nothing like getting a hug from your daughters or taking them to school.
-
My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
-
Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press.
-
Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.
-
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
-
I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.
-
Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
-
It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.
-
All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
