Colognes Cabinets Quotes

#1. There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

Dale Dauten

#2. Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

Wilbur Smith

#3. I don't feel competitive.

Shirley Maclaine

#4. For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born.

Deborah Harkness

#5. He sighed. "There is one thing you must understand about destroying gods, boy." "Only one?" "You must be ready to take their place.

Max Gladstone

#6. Irish-looking,' Halley said, by which she meant a collection of indistinct features - pale skin, mousy hair, general air of ill-health - that combine to mysteriously powerful romantic effect.

Paul Murray

#7. The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.

Madonna Ciccone

#8. Freedom is never very safe.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. Bid us sigh on from day to day,
And wish and wish the soul away,
Till youth and genial years are flown,
And all the life of life is gone

Samuel Beckett

#10. I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.

Frances Moore Lappe

#11. Everything that is conscious, aware of itself, has a soul.

Anne Rice

#12. The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There's going to be a reckoning eventually.

Colleen Houck

#13. If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

Jeff VanderMeer

#14. He was Darth Vader, and I was Jar Jar Binks.

Denise Grover Swank