Brian Lumley Quotes

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

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• We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• I no longer run barefoot.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Run
  • Longer
  • Barefoot

• A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Pride

• I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Interesting
  • Energy
  • Day

• If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Try

• When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Way
  • Find
  • Down

• I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Never
  • Human
  • Said

• A good book is a good book. End of story.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Good
  • Book
  • End

• I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Love
  • Doing

• I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Great
  • Education
  • Working

• In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Star

• I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Never
  • Young
  • Rules

• Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Me
  • Star
  • Child

• It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

  

  Mae West
  • Way
  • Say

• But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called - called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.

  

  Jack London
  • May
  • Book
  • Reading

• 95: Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Good

• My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Important
  • Words
  • Comedy

• The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • People
  • Wish
  • Paris

• But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Good
  • Angels
  • Sleeping

• Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. I think I remind everyone of themselves. I'm not saying everyone is my size, but it's relatable because I'm not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Body

• Those jeans are comfortable, and for those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I'm sorry I'm not the guy. It just doesn't fit me. I'm not 20.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Sorry

• A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

  

  Brian Lumley