Fitzclarence Descendants Quotes

#1. Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.

Odd Nerdrum

#3. But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. He wouldn't even dance with Levana at the stupid ball if he could help it - to hell with diplomacy.

Marissa Meyer

#5. The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

Jean Cocteau

#6. Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

Owen Feltham

#7. We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Charles De Lint

#8. I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it.I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.

Joe Manganiello

#9. I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.

Ellen McLaughlin

#10. Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear.

Solange Nicole