David Eddings Quotes

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

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• The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Work
  • Internet
  • Movement

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • Damage

• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Done
  • Art
  • Today

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Good
  • Women
  • Moment

• The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

  

  B. B. King
  • Small
  • First
  • Guitar

• I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Need

• Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Single
  • Couple

• There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • True
  • Small

• I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different.

  

  Iman
  • Different
  • Writing
  • American

• My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Journey
  • Darkness

• At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • Time
  • Small

• I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that 'President of the United States' was about halfway up the ladder.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Happy

• We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.

  

  Aja Brown
  • Violence
  • Tolerance

• I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Ideas
  • Differences
  • Faces

• I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

  

  David Eddings
  • Small
  • College
  • Teacher