Defoe Robinson Crusoe Quotes

#1. In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he'd written became known as neumes.

Louise Penny

#2. Not only a fanatic and an incendiary (two of the insults that dogged Defoe most closely in his lifetime), the author of Robinson Crusoe was also an egregious spiv, and a slave to bling.

Daniel Defoe

#3. Freedom from desire is the best of states.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and

Daniel Defoe

#5. Ice cream was for assassins who finished their targets.

Charlie Jane Anders

#6. We saw Leif to the door and wished him farewell. Time to hit the hay for the last time in this old house, I told my hound as I closed the door on the vampire. All right, buddy. What'll it be?

Kevin Hearne

#7. When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.

Rachel Bloom

#8. The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Charles Rosen

#9. Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

Pete Wentz

#10. Was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions

Daniel Defoe

#11. I think a lot of women have back problems.

Erin Heatherton

#12. All we ever got in those [early] days was Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.

Paul McCartney

#13. There are always options. And a wise man always has more than one plan.

Christie Golden

#14. Have I gotten everything right? I doubt it. Not even the great Daniel Defoe did that; in Robinson Crusoe, our hero strips naked, swims out to the ship he has recently escaped....and then fills up his pockets with items he will need to stay alive on his desert island.

Stephen King

#15. And in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the future.

Daniel Defoe