Kage Baker Quotes

It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?

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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• I love cycling.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Cycling

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Great
  • Writing
  • You

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Down

• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • London
  • University
  • Received

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Dream

• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Want
  • Death
  • Point

• Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Too Much

• I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Learning
  • Tea

• I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Believe
  • Character

• The motto of the Netherlands is translated into English as 'I will uphold.' But I want you to know that, as we go forward, our message together is not just 'I will uphold,' but 'we will uphold.'

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Together
  • English

• The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Man
  • Capacity
  • Self-Correction

• Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Same

• It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?

  

  Kage Baker
  • Work
  • Wisdom