Famous quotes by Authors

"This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly"

Thomas Malory, Author

"We live within two environments: one is physical and surrounds us; the other is mental and is inside of us. Both can be designed to support your success"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"If we do not discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us"

William Feather, Author

"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways"

Clarence Day, Author

"To change what you get, you must change who you are"

Vernon Howard, Author

"Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again"

Bret Harte, Author

"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change"

Bret Harte, Author

"Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light"

Ellis Peters, Author

"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect"

Adam Osborne, Author

"There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left"

David Guterson, Author

"There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart"

Keith Miller, Author

"The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all"

Adam Osborne, Author

"The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief"

Michael Crichton, Author

"I'd rather be running the game than playing it"

Steven Brust, Author

"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us"

Jane Roberts, Author

"A library book, I imagine, is a happy book"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life"

Dean Koontz, Author

"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult"

Ken Follett, Author

"No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct"

Shakti Gawain, Author

"The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work"

Kathleen Winsor, Author

"Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!"

Shakti Gawain, Author

"World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years"

Ken Follett, Author

"In the 1920s, you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks"

Ron Chernow, Author

"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process"

Shelby Foote, Author

"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine"

Robert C. Gallagher, Author

"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed"

Robert C. Gallagher, Author

"You get what you concentrate upon... There is no other main rule"

Jane Roberts, Author

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