David Gemmell Quotes

... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

David Gemmell

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• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Difficult

• That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Make

• Winners do what losers don't want to do.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Want
  • Winners
  • Losers

• The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Hate
  • Now
  • Wait

• I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • Want
  • Young

• Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Looks
  • Flowers

• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reason
  • Cause
  • Justification

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Truth
  • Very
  • Tell

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Running
  • Traditional
  • Oracle

• My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Together
  • Confidence

• I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Think
  • You
  • Actor

• I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Feel
  • Speak

• If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Great
  • Train
  • Ride

• It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Done
  • Action
  • Actor

• Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

  

  E. M. Delafield
  • Doe
  • Engagement
  • Optimism

• We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Think
  • Way
  • Granted

• All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination.

  

  Peter Marino

• ...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • People
  • Soul
  • Expressions

• ... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

  

  David Gemmell