Columbian Orator Quotes

#1. The Columbian Orator.

Frederick Douglass

#2. I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

Paul Van Dyk

#3. Really good 'hard' novels - say, Wolf Hall - yield, if you read them carefully, the information you need when you need it, in order to follow their paths. But there is a point at which subtle storytelling maneuvers outmaneuver their own intelligibility.

Daniel Menaker

#4. The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.

Nelson A. Miles

#5. Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

Denis Waitley

#6. Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

Francis Atterbury

#7. I am terrible with people's names.

Rob Lowe

#8. Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and open all the doors there, and enter all the dark rooms. And make friends with what he found there.

Louise Penny

#9. One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#10. It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

Mike Leigh

#11. If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

Ford Madox Ford

#12. In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

Mary Caroline Richards

#13. Have you noticed the weather? asked Thomas. All turned to look for the weather.

Donald Barthelme

#14. Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Benoit Mandelbrot