Robert W. Service Quotes
The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
Robert W. Service
Quotes to Explore
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
Damien Chazelle
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
Jack Wild
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
Walter Kirn
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At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
Daniel Craig
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My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.
Olly Murs
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People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.
Kate Bush
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Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
Barry Lam
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
Baruch Spinoza
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
Fernando Pessoa
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The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.
Orson Scott Card
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As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.
Tanith Lee
