Claremont's Quotes

#1. Later, William Stoner could not remember how he learned these things, that first afternoon and early evening at Josiah Claremont's house; for the time of his meeting was blurred and formal, like the figured tapestry on the stair wall off the foyer.

John Williams

#2. Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics - what they believe matters.18

Daniel Goleman

#3. The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows.

Chris Claremont

#4. almost a grown man, yet when it came to his mutant

Chris Claremont

#5. Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

Wayne Dyer

#6. The better to slay me?! Mt healing factors make me a mutant. Lacing my bones with adamantium and giving me these claws, that was done to me. but, you asked to be changed. You did this to yourself. Threw away a humanity i'd give pretty near anything to possess.

Chris Claremont

#7. Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

Jack Welch

#8. It's almost beautiful, your sadness.

Maire Claremont

#9. Hear me, X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am Fire and Life incarnate! Now and forever - I am PHOENIX!

Chris Claremont

#10. who probably didn't know any better; to Louise Simonson & Brent Eric Anderson, for "God Loves, Man Kills"; to Eleanor Wood, for reasons that need no explanation; to Betsy Mitchell, for having faith; and Steve Saffel, for keeping both book

Chris Claremont

#11. The resolution of the Phoenix Saga was one of the most frustrating experiences that I think any of us ever had, but I also think it was the right move. The decision, three years later, to undo the Phoenix Saga with the resurrection of Jean was less so, but that's in my opinion.

Chris Claremont

#12. Time went by. It could be proved that it did, although so little happened.

Elizabeth Taylor

#13. I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

Henry Kravis

#14. Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

Chris Claremont

#15. How do I defeat Apophis?"
"I'm so glad you asked!" Thoth beamed at me with his multicolored eyes. "Unfortunately, I can't tell you."
I glanced at Walt. "Do you want to kill him, or should I?

Rick Riordan

#16. Dani: "Warlock! You, pal, are the proverbial sight for sore eyes!"
Warlock: "Concern! Are selfriend's primary ocular sensors dysfunctional?

Chris Claremont

#17. If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.

Chris Claremont

#18. And you're Emma Frost -- The Hellfire Club's White Queen. I understand you call yourself something of a telepath. Well, "Your Majesty," let's see how good you really are.

Chris Claremont

#19. That night, at the lighthouse, everything else faded away and my entire world became Sofia Claremont.

Bella Forrest

#20. We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Margaret Chase Smith

#21. I think we better move this elsewhere," Aaron kissed her gently. "I have a room upstairs, you still wanting this?"
She looked up at him, "Yes.

Leanne Claremont

#22. As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Alan Ayckbourn

#23. I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

Ben Harper

#24. I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chris Claremont

#25. What's on your mind, Derek? she whispered.
"You ... " I saw no reason to lie " ... how I can't imagine life without you.

Bella Forrest

#26. What use legs if not to take you down the road? What use eyes if not to see what lay beyond the horizon? What use hands if not to open doors?

Chris Claremont

#27. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Ben Harper

#28. There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.

Alan Moore

#29. She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.

Elizabeth Taylor

#30. Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.

Rajneesh