Rick Bass Quotes

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

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• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • Earth

• Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Sometimes
  • Risk
  • Use

• There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Failure

• I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Power

• I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Way
  • Knows
  • Paris

• When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Law
  • Christianity
  • Morality

• The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Stupidity
  • Folly

• The concept is to weave in some emotion.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Emotion
  • Concept
  • Weave

• Things don't always happen the way we planned. As we learn to trust in God's plan, we will see that He has our best interests at heart.

  

  Dan Ellis
  • Always
  • Happen
  • Interests

• I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.

  

  William Inge
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Two

• I think the hardest part for us as professional athletes and coaches is we always deal with a black and white business.

  

  Michael Malone
  • Business
  • Hard
  • Black-and-white

• Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Enemy
  • Attitude
  • Habit

• I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

  

  Rick Bass
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