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
  • Energy
  • Interesting
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Frozen

• There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm

• It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there.

  

  Linda M. Godwin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Confidence

• The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Great
  • Age
  • Soul

• Unlike my previous roles, which portrayed girls who are supportive and loving, Hye-jung is a cold loner who doesn't know how to love.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Love
  • Know
  • Cold

• Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

  

  Allen Klein
  • Up

• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Food

• 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