Conn Iggulden Quotes

We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends

Conn Iggulden

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• I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trying
  • Inspired
  • Lyrics

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Good Idea

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Discipline
  • Building

• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Sometimes
  • Artist

• I just lost interest in performing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Lost
  • Interest
  • Just

• Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Money
  • Wood
  • Corners

• I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Angry
  • Brothers

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Cheer

• When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Help
  • Party
  • Moving

• Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep, As on an elevation, and behold The academies like structures in a mist.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Moments
  • Sleep

• We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.

  

  Lawrence Summers
  • World
  • Free
  • Respect

• Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Attention
  • Understanding

• 'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

  

  Lewis Carroll

• I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.

  

  James Marsden
  • Time
  • Family

• I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin-‘finis musicae'.'’

  

  Anton Rubinstein
  • Death

• I feel like a famous Indian Chief of the Fagowee nations, who led his tribe for 40 years in the desert amidst starvation, hunger, famine, strife, plague - finally staggered up to the top of this mountain, drug crazed, looked out and pounded his chest and said, 'Where the fuck are we? Where the fuck are we?'

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Up
  • Famous
  • Mountain

• Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Star

• If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Civilization
  • Ignorant
  • Timid

• We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Death
  • Loss
  • Fathers