Conan The Cimmerian Quotes

#1. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

Robert E. Howard

#2. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content ... Conan the Cimmerian.

Robert E. Howard

#3. Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

Robert E. Howard

#4. The moon rose, striking fire from the Cimmerian's horned helmet. No call awoke the echoes; yet suddenly the night grew tense and the jungle held its breath. Instinctively Conan loosened the great sword in its sheath.

Robert E. Howard

#5. Yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just

Sappho

#6. Be like a fresh flowing stream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. The government of human beings, he argued, is a matter not of applying cold rules and principles, but of tending to warm sentiments and attachments to produce the strongest and best unified community possible.

Yuval Levin

#8. I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#9. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave.

Roberto Bolano

#10. He's completely unspoiled by failure.

Noel Coward

#11. It is said that politics is the second-oldest profession in the world but that it bears a close resemblance to the oldest," said

James Patterson

#12. Education is the development of power and ideal.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#13. So it takes years to make a solid company.

Ninette De Valois

#14. I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

Tanith Lee

#15. Conan stared at the hand holding the pendant. The grim god of his Cimmerian northcountry, Crom, Lord of the Mound, gave a man only life and will. What he did with them, or failed to do, was up to him alone. Life and will.

Robert Jordan

#16. Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.

David Foster Wallace

#17. The greatest gift we have ever received, and ever will or could receive, is the Spirit of God Himself. He enters the essence of our human form and changes us from within. He fills us with joy, love and peace. He subdues our passions and transforms our very being into the likeness of Christ.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#18. My priorities are really about creating balance in my home, making sure that I have enough time with my kids, making sure that I have the time to do the things that I want to do with my career, and to continue to make movies.

Nia Long

#19. All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

Neil Gaiman

#20. I want to remember that the sky is so gorgeously large, I feel stranded beneath it.

Anis Mojgani