Tanith Lee Quotes

The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.

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• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• 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 like to discover new things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Book
  • Desire
  • Language

• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence
  • Early

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • School
  • Poetry

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • America
  • Earth
  • Leaders

• We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Identity
  • Europe
  • European

• Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Try

• That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Matter
  • Same
  • Table

• 'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Giving

• If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Energy
  • Life Is Short
  • Good Book

• Impossible is relative.

  

  Michio Kaku
  • Impossible
  • Relative

• The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men

• The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

  

  John Paul Stevens

• Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Business
  • Alone

• The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Sun
  • Sky