David Gemmell Quotes

A warrior has only one true friend: himself. So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

David Gemmell

• Believe
• Heart
• True
• Soul
• Knowledge
• Friend
• Purpose
• Warrior

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Past
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Grow

• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • May
  • Me

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • You
  • Looking
  • Used

• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Well
  • Ease
  • Rapping

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

  Young Buck
  • Back
  • Streets
  • Started

• When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Fun

• It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Father
  • Death
  • Funny

• Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Need
  • Industry
  • Build

• I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

  

  Jack Ma
  • School
  • High
  • City

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Back
  • Carry
  • Laptop

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be ready to attack. You gotta shut your brain off and just go.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Brain

• All my first albums, they're full of heart and emotion, and the songs are wonderful, but they wouldn't have been the takes I would have chosen.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Heart

• What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • People
  • Power
  • Song

• Since I started playing, really, since I was like three. I imagined myself famous but the vision was blurry, I guess. What you see on TV isn't a realistic picture.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Vision
  • Picture
  • Famous

• The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged 'truth' which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• A warrior has only one true friend: himself. So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • True