Tanith Lee Quotes

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

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• Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Book
  • Light
  • City

• I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Twitter
  • Awkward

• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Foundation

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Power
  • Everyone
  • Equal

• Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Up
  • Important
  • Perfect

• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Strong
  • Actor
  • Director

• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  

  Ed Koch
  • World
  • Power
  • Fall

• The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Night
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

  

  Said Musa
  • Work
  • English
  • Independent

• The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • Islam
  • West

• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Love
  • Heaven

• Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • More
  • Upset
  • Far

• I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Space
  • Guitar

• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Entertaining

• Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Think
  • Alone
  • Thought

• I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Morning

• I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

  

  Joseph Fiennes
  • New
  • Blood
  • Writers

• I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Free

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Know
  • Wonderful
  • Going