John Robb Quotes

#1. The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".

Pamela Geller

#2. Boredom is a sign that you're detached from your own bodily experience and aren't living in the present moment.

Georg Feuerstein

#3. Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

Darin Strauss

#4. People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and ... It's not like that.

Dries Van Noten

#5. I stumble through a carnival of horrors

Anne Rice

#6. I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage.

Gillian Flynn

#7. All stress begins with one negative thought.

Rhonda Byrne

#8. The South ought to be led, by candid and honest criticism, to assert her better self and do her full duty to the race she has cruelly wronged and is still wronging.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#9. Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

Conan O'Brien

#10. I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.

Iyanla Vanzant

#11. No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

Michael Shermer

#12. Kate collapsed onto a bench seat. "You were right" she said. "worst plan ever".
"Told you". Said Agust, sinking onto his knees.

Victoria Schwab

#13. When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

Waldemar Januszczak

#14. Yet I wouldn't trade it. I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant I could be with Bella.

Stephenie Meyer

#15. Al-Qaeda doesn't want to govern Iraq or Saudi Arabia. It wants to collapse them and exercise power through feudal relationships in the vacuum created by their failure.

John Robb