Taliesin Quotes

I have fled in the shape of a raven of prophetic speech, in the shape of a satirizing fox, in the shape of a sure swift, in the shape of a squirrel vainly hiding. I have fled in the shape of a red deer, in the shape of iron in a fierce fire, in the shape of a sword sowing death and disaster, in the shape of a bull, relentlessly struggling.

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• I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nice

• What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Happy
  • Appreciation

• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Door
  • Sugar

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Why

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
  • Couple

• I've been on a tweeting mission.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Been
  • Mission
  • Tweeting

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Free
  • Small

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Important
  • Me
  • Trust

• I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Regrets
  • None
  • No Regrets

• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Pure

• Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

  

  Banksy
  • Important
  • Art
  • Same

• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Home
  • Song

• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Train
  • Through
  • Basics

• I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Light
  • Patience

• I've been on reality TV since I was 23.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Reality

• I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Together

• What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

  

  Michael Koryta
  • Writing
  • Process
  • I Like

• For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Royally

• I have fled in the shape of a raven of prophetic speech, in the shape of a satirizing fox, in the shape of a sure swift, in the shape of a squirrel vainly hiding. I have fled in the shape of a red deer, in the shape of iron in a fierce fire, in the shape of a sword sowing death and disaster, in the shape of a bull, relentlessly struggling.

  

  Taliesin
  • Death
  • Fire
  • Red