Joannou Cycle Quotes

#1. I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Zadie Smith

#2. He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Because reason ... is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us ...

Rene Descartes

#4. If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.

Steven Morrissey

#6. He still kept smiling. And his moustache was definitely plotting something.

Sonya Lano

#7. It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

Anton Chekhov

#8. Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.

Gayle Greene

#9. Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound,
Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

Charles Churchill

#10. Victims have succumbed to defeat, and their spirit has been conquered and crushed. We survivors are fearless gladiators, and our spirit can never be broken.

Robert Palasciano

#11. There was one less monster on earth, and the world was certainly better off without him.

Craig R. Key

#12. Just as easy as it was to get, just as easy as it is to lose. I've learned that.

Khali Raymond

#13. It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

Graham Sutherland