Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

Michael Moorcock

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• Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Learn
  • Mountains

• In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Political
  • Team

• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • News
  • Liberal
  • Rhetoric

• I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Father
  • Me
  • Popular

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Day

• I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Future

• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Taken

• Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • World
  • Team
  • Win

• Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

  

  Ice T
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Tough

• The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Star

• ... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Business
  • Rock

• 'Pilar - remember - nothing is so boring as devotion.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Remember

• Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Today
  • Survival

• War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • War

• Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Responsibility

• Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

  

  Linda Gray
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Joy

• The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Good
  • Power
  • Community

• I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

  

  Kevin Cramer
  • Smile
  • Optimistic

• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Lying

• Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.

  

  James Dobson
  • School
  • Why
  • City

• Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Wife
  • Monogamy
  • Western custom

• Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Fool
  • Champion
  • Soldier