Frank Herbert Quotes

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

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• On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Character
  • Stage

• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Own
  • Price
  • My Own

• I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Job
  • Age
  • Fashion

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Think
  • Try

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • High
  • Earth
  • Respect

• I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Man
  • You
  • Rocky

• I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Guy

• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Dating
  • September
  • January

• The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Creative

• The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Experience
  • Fire
  • Gold

• The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Response
  • Generosity

• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Summer
  • Interested

• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Victory
  • Defeat

• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Kind
  • Mean
  • Vicious

• Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• Administration is, or ought to be, a necessary overhead to aid production, and should at all times be kept as low as possible.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover

• It's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.

  

  J Balvin
  • Dream

• There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.

  

  Jim Piddock
  • Different
  • Family
  • Nature

• I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Die

• I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

  

  Daniel Greenberg
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

  

  Frank Herbert
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