Ixians Dune Quotes

#1. In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

Shakti Gawain

#2. If the spirit lusts against the flesh, work so that you can gain the victory over the flesh

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling.

Holly Black

#4. To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Gloria Steinem

#6. I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.

Peter Capaldi

#7. I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

Justin Kirk

#8. Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

Alfred The Great

#9. In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Emile M. Cioran