Emily Rodda Quotes

In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.

Emily Rodda

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• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
  • Driven

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Interesting
  • First
  • Disney

• North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • Internet

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Feeling

• I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Home
  • Christian

• Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Give
  • Mother`s
  • Guidance

• The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Alone
  • Literature
  • Often

• He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Father
  • Hand

• I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Family
  • Lovely
  • Bahamas

• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Life
  • Small
  • Curiosity

• I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

  

  J. August Richards
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
  • Glory

• Vitia erunt donec homines

  

  Tacitus

• Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Hand
  • Perseverance

• And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Space

• It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Joy

• A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Remember
  • Soul
  • Earth

• I had sadness for breakfast.

  

  Andy Milonakis
  • Breakfast

• As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Long
  • Night
  • Green

• In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.

  

  Emily Rodda
  • Earth
  • Special
  • Ancient