Draconis Memoria Quotes

#1. Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

Rachel Kushner

#2. Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

Dennis Prager

#3. In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.

Millard Drexler

#5. Love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: your life is worth seeing.

Anna Carey

#6. Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

George Clooney

#7. To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of yourself with that person.

Matthew Kelly

#8. Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.

Peter Senge

#9. One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

Jacob Bronowski

#10. Finally," Lilith said, smiling warmly at her. "A reasonable angel."
"I'm no angel," Eleanore quietly insisted.
"Yes, you are," said every man in the room.

Heather Killough-Walden

#11. We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves
outside of Germany.

Alfred Rosenberg

#12. I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity ... and, most of all, intellectualism.

John Ford

#13. I've been dying to play.

Johnny Kelly

#14. I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies.

Aisha Mirza