Piers Anthony Quotes

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

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• We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Live
  • Sports
  • English

• I am strictly against remaking a movie.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Remaking

• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Give
  • Islam
  • Interpretation

• I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Security
  • Watching
  • Cause

• We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Character
  • Communication

• If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Done
  • American
  • War

• My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Goal
  • Gold
  • Still

• My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Violence
  • View

• Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

  

  M. Ward
  • You
  • Things
  • Certain

• The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Feeling
  • Reason
  • Win

• The bad boys get all the best lines.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Lines

• We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

• We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Law
  • Abuse

• Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

  

  Tyson Chandler

• Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Why
  • Free

• All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Bad

• My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Europe and the home of Cabrales, a great blue cheese made in the Asturian mountains. When I was young, we moved to Barcelona. Whenever my mother was homesick for Asturias, she'd eat a little piece of Cabrales to bring her closer to Mieres.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Great
  • Home
  • She

• History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Positive
  • Doubt
  • Literature

• I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Work
  • Want
  • Like

• But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

  

  Piers Anthony