Ducis Quotes

#1. Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
[Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

Tacitus

#2. I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

Lorrie Moore

#3. I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

Sloane Crosley

#4. My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies,

Stephen Glass

#5. There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

Claude Simon

#6. It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#7. My friend is one ... who take me for what I am.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#9. My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

Jean-Francois Ducis

#10. In themselves, experiments are not art. Infinite amounts of energy are wasted because everybody feels he has to make his own start, his own beginning, instead of getting to know what has already been done. It is doubtful that anyone who doesn't want to ...

Jan Tschichold

#11. Mr. Valentine ... " "Yes, ma'am?" "You do think he'll follow me, don't you?" "Only to the ends of the earth," he said gravely. That drew a smile from her, and she turned to climb into the carriage.
- Poppy & Mr.Valentine

Lisa Kleypas

#12. I am at home among trees.

J.R.R. Tolkien