Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.
Quotes to Explore
-
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
-
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
-
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
-
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
-
A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
-
The tongue, the Chinese say,is like a sharp knife:it killswithout drawing blood.
-
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
-
I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.
-
Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
-
We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
-
Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.
-
Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
-
I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.
-
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
-
I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.
-
The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.
-
I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.
Mark Spitz -
I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.
-
Hereditary sloth instructs me.
-
You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death.
-
O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire The streams than under ice. June could not hire Her roses to forego the strength they learn In sleeping on thy breast.
-
Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: 'This time I will burn out all the animal; this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' After all, what is ten years? Men have been a hundred thousand in the making.
-
The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.
