Conn Iggulden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian -
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Irving Babbitt -
I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
Rae Carson -
Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
Vikram Seth -
The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
Yelena Baturina
-
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
Nate Berkus -
Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
Jack Nicklaus -
My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
Jack Nicklaus -
I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
Zoe Wanamaker -
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said - of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.
Charles Dickens
-
Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
Aristotle Onassis -
It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.
Jaycie Phelps -
Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
Alex Berenson -
I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!
Adriana Lima -
Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.
Keegan Bradley -
Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
Billy Crudup
-
The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
Rachel Cusk -
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
Alexandra Fuller -
Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
Vanessa Bayer -
Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world
Conn Iggulden