L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

L. Ron Hubbard

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• I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Pirate
  • Especially
  • Mermaids

• What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Trying
  • You
  • Story

• Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Dad
  • Choice
  • Finding

• I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Career
  • Politicians
  • Washington

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Good
  • Want
  • Finding

• Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • People
  • Lifestyle
  • Finding

• South Central is just who I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • South Central

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Up
  • Model

• I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Why
  • High
  • Kind

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Taken
  • Old
  • Ancient

• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Trying
  • House

• My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

  

  K. Flay
  • Serious
  • Died
  • Inheritance

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Me
  • Finding

• I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Father
  • Prison
  • Electricity

• Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Why
  • More
  • Many

• Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

  

  Euripides
  • Ancient
  • Shape
  • Mimicries

• Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Eye
  • Disappear
  • Ancient

• For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

  

  Alejandro Zambra
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Things

• You can buy music or you can steal music, as long as you fuckin' feel music!

  

  Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Buy

• I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Finding
  • Ancient
  • Died