David Gemmell Quotes

He who fears to lose will never win.

David Gemmell

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• I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.

  

  Sally Field
  • Wanted
  • Her
  • Bit

• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Together
  • Perfection
  • Exist

• 'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Family
  • Show
  • Quintessential

• It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Important
  • Stress
  • September

• I love singing. I love singing at home.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Love
  • Home
  • Singing

• I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Feeling
  • Close
  • Too

• I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

  

  Questlove
  • Great
  • Music
  • Believe

• People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • History
  • Comedy

• It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and think I'm 15 years old - they think I'm really young and quiet and shy, and that I've never been in a relationship and have never been in love or anything.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Love
  • American

• Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Trying
  • Rap

• You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Mind
  • Die

• Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • She

• My boss treated me like a slave and I felt completely degraded. Then, just once, I did a terrible thing - I peed in his tea! Watching him drink it, my grudges completely dissolved - I never minded making tea for him again.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Tea
  • Boss

• I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Children

• Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at 'capitalism' because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Why
  • Law

• To enjoy-to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• I'm a strong fellow.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Strong

• Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word. The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform the world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Different
  • Hope

• Go head on, with yo' fat apple pie ass, Aunt Bea!

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Aunt

• Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.

  

  Sydney Brenner
  • Science
  • Students
  • Labourer

• People hate searching.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Hate
  • Searching

• 'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Movie

• He who fears to lose will never win.

  

  David Gemmell