Duke And I Book Quotes

#1. A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.

Linda Colley

#2. Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

Ice Cube

#3. She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as beautiful and pure as that. Real things had happened to her to make her how she was and I wanted to know them, and read them, like a book.

David Mitchell

#4. Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

Ernst Junger

#5. You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.

Esai Morales

#6. The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae

#7. We open the door for God to work by placing faith in His Word, and we open the door for Satan to work by placing faith in his word. He places thought in our minds that are not true, but can become true for us if they are believed.

Joyce Meyer

#8. Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady to remove the book from off the top of her head and open it for a change. Just like I taught you.

Gaelen Foley

#9. Without always knowing what we were doing we were constantly adjusting to the arbitrariness by which we were surrounded.

V.S. Naipaul

#10. It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil.

Thomas Malory

#11. For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.

John Van Hamersveld

#12. I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Maya Angelou

#13. The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#14. It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else ... begin to march us steadily backward.

Patrick Stewart

#15. I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Marla Maples

#16. I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).

Violet Duke

#17. I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.

Michael Donaghy

#18. While we share the same set of values, we can - and do - have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.

Ross Perot Jr.