Candrea Adams Quotes

#1. Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#2. His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.

Victor Hugo

#3. And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

David Bowie

#4. For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

Pericles

#5. I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?

Elizabeth Taylor

#6. Nathaniel Septimus Ernest Bertram Lysander Tybalt Zacharias Edmund Alexander Humphrey Percy Quentin Tristan Augustus Bartholomew Tarquin Imogen Sebastian Theodore Clarence Smythe.

David Walliams

#7. Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man.

Jose N. Harris

#8. What the podcast novelists do isn't all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

Jeremy Robinson

#9. Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

#10. If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

Orson Scott Card

#11. The man was an emotional Fort Knox.

Ransom Riggs

#12. Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#13. Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.

Richard Rohr