Annalise Basso Quotes

#1. Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music.

John Eliot Gardiner

#2. We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

Naguib Mahfouz

#3. My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Charles Dickens

#4. Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'

Robin Hobb

#5. Thieves, drunkards, lunatics, wastrels, and whores we might all be, but there ain't a coward among us.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. If everybody went around understanding each other without asking questions or speaking their mind, they'd never get anywhere.

Haruki Murakami

#7. The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

T.D. Jakes

#8. The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.

Erich Fromm

#9. The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

Robert Gilpin

#10. I think women are great drivers. To be honest, I've only been in one car accident - one of my best friends, his wife was driving. She went into oncoming traffic, our car flipped almost four times. I didn't even have time to put on a seat belt, because they'd just picked me up.

Dominic Cooper

#11. No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love

Katie Kacvinsky