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

• 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

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

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Frozen

• The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

  

  Bill Buxton
  • Experience
  • Landing

• My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Father

• My sophomore year at high school, I spent $300 I had earned working at After School Matters for my first studio session. For a 16-year-old to sacrifice that much money was pivotal. It spoke a lot about how serious I was.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • School
  • Serious
  • Working

• I have so many other talents other than fighting, and I would love to be able to show those off. I would like to say, 'Yes, I'm a fighter, and I'm this,' or, 'Yes I'm a fighter, but I'm also this.'

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Fighting
  • Like
  • Fighter

• 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