David Gemmell Quotes

We sit here safe, within a circle of swords held by other men.

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• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Complete
  • Supreme

• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Joy
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cold

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kind
  • Inspired
  • Wind

• Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Reputation
  • Washington
  • Some

• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

  Ira Glass
  • She
  • Me
  • Star

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Pizza

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Light
  • Purpose
  • Darkness

• I have matured a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Lot
  • Matured

• I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Carl Forti
  • People
  • Change
  • Peace

• I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Me
  • Proud
  • Tomorrow

• I play golf - badly.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Play Golf

• Win one for the Gipper.

  

  Knute Rockne

• I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happy

• Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Together
  • Colors
  • Puzzle

• When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• We sit here safe, within a circle of swords held by other men.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Men