R. A. Salvatore Quotes
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
-
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
-
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
-
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
-
I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
-
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
-
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
-
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
-
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
-
I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
-
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
-
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
-
Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
-
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
-
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
-
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
-
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
-
I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.
-
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
-
The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.
-
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
-
Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought.
-
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
