David Gemmell Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes -
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
Zygmunt Bauman -
I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
Patrick Murphy -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Paracelsus
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
Taissa Farmiga -
I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
Beck -
I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
Kabir Bedi -
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
Vera Miles -
America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Randi Weingarten -
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
Salman Rushdie
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler -
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
Baz Luhrmann -
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Oliver Herford -
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
Raekwon -
The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
Floyd Patterson -
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
Olivia Williams
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The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
Dr. John -
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smil.
Victor Hugo -
Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting. His temper is frightening.
Bret Stephens -
My family lives a pretty normal life.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish -
My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.
James Gray -
A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
David Gemmell