Alexandre Dumas Quotes
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.
Quotes to Explore
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Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
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When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...
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Struggling toward impassioned choirs, Crying among the clouds, enraged By gold antagonists in air - I know my lazy, leaden twang Is like the reason in a storm; And yet it brings the storm to bear. I twang it out and leave it there.
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Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm - The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.
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And we're in the middle of a 'perfect storm.' These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.
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I'm not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his first two novels, 'Garden State' (1992) and 'The Ice Storm' (1994).
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When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.
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I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.
