Quotes By Famous Authors: [D]
Life is too short to marinate in mediocrity. Become the leader you were made to be.
Remembering may be a celebration or it may be a dagger in the heart, but it is better, far better, than forgetting.
The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about ...
There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
Someone did better than you because they didn't follow a rule and were not caught. And you do not want to be the person everyone ...
In the end, Charlie Bucket won a chocolate factory. But Willy Wonka had something even better, a family. And one thing was absolutely certain - ...
Are you gonna be tough, or are you going to be tough?
Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
Doctors, like all other people, are subject to prejudice and discrimination. While bias can be a problem in any profession, in medicine, the stakes are ...
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that ...
Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.
Their hatred of the Germans was quieter and more deadly than I have ever seen before.
I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.
I'm saying it's totally oblivious to how people feel. Take the ocean, for instance. You can love it, but it doesn't love you back. It ...
The "Warrior Ethos" emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a "guardian ...
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible." -Albert Einstein
I am not responsible for the soul path of another person.
Just as soldiers at their best cannot be equalled in courage, so at their worst nobody can excel them in vandalism.
Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.
You have to be tough and stand your ground.
Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.
DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to ...
In its early days the film industry made more than four hundred silent movies exploiting the nation's fascination with Appalachian feuds and moonshine making.
The brain apparently thinks logic is a precious resource to be used only sparingly.
Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.
He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a ...
Educators are not neuroscientists, but they are members of the only profession in which their job is to change the human brain every day.
Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"
What am I more than elaborate sentience?
Men and women were doing at their unsurpassed when they were together. It was more or less like the sky and the ground; diverse in ...
I hope that people can't see into my soul, it would hurt them too much
If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.
The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
Just ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you." Job 12:7, NLT
Plot is not the story, but an Ariadne's thread you follow through a labyrinth of scenes.
Mistakes can bring us to spiritual heights, or depths, which we would have otherwise not visited.
You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.
One has to be very selective about what is essential for driving the story and what isn't. You leave out some things that are lovely, ...
I came, I saw, I concurred...
Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences together, ...
TCK builds relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the TCK's ...
In a universe of unlimited possibility and abundance, I had attracted what I was ready to receive.
Oh, sorry. My excitement must be clouding my ability to judge comedic hyperbole.
Be nice... until it's time to not be nice.
The area became known as the Zone of Silence because normal radios do not work within the 1,500 square mile area. Some sort of interference ...
A man that knows how to be a friend will always find a friend when he needs one.
Demon, your reckoning has come. - Danel Blackwalker
My heart is sore. In my dream I toss it across an asphalt pavement, watching it skip like a stone. Just