Eric Van Lustbader Quotes

The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.

Eric Van Lustbader

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• I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Attention
  • Empty
  • Ice

• Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Rights
  • TV
  • Formula One

• It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Human

• I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Champion
  • Winner
  • Mentality

• I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Up
  • Love
  • Friends

• My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Old
  • Really
  • Watch

• We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Together

• It is light that defeats the dark.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Dark

• Ultima ratio Regum

  

  Cardinal Richelieu

• This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

  

  Condoleezza Rice

• The right hon. Gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal position, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Gentleman

• Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words. I'm so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Different
  • Words
  • Powerful

• I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Life

• We are quite different: I'm relaxed, and I get ready for races really late, whereas Jonny is really organised and punctual. I like to lead from the front in the run, whereas Jonny might hold back. Maybe it's because I'm the older brother, but I don't think there is a mental block that stops Jonny doing the same. I just think I'm a bit more gung-ho.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Different
  • Brother

• I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing.

  

  George Clooney
  • Girl
  • Wells
  • Known

• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Faith
  • Adoration
  • Police Forces

• When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I dream of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all the times we fished together. Do you remember all the times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. -Jalil's letter

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Together

• I'm not really wanting to be famous.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Famous

• The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Regret
  • Anxiety
  • Bound