59401 Quotes

#1. What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.

Moses Finley

#2. Some man's dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for the seasoned storyteller. If you are a writer, it should be on your desk.

Jacqueline Winspear

#4. When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

John Pomfret

#5. Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.

Jim Rohn

#6. Be daring to push your ideas forward.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

Shaun Hick

#8. Maybe i'm ashamed because it's hard not to feel ashamed, when just being born is something you can be killed for.

Sharon Dogar

#9. Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

James S.A. Corey

#10. Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Alex Comfort

#11. Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.

Paddy Chayefsky

#12. How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?

Kate Morton