Page 80 Quotes

#1. Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration.
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Neena Verma

#2. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

James Joyce

#3. I am sick with caring.

Charles Bukowski

#4. I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. I'm on page 12 of 80 of Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus: Waves were never the tide but ripples, spawned by moon-coloured ships of war.

Simon Armitage

#6. If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

Haruki Murakami

#7. I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.

Vaclav Smil

#8. St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.

Wayne Dyer

#9. A student with greater talent than his teacher needs great humility.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Smiling, sincere, incorruptible -
His body disciplined and limber.
A man who had become what he could,
And was what he was-
Ready at any moment to gather everything
Into one simple sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjold

#11. Keep your eyes on the things you are drawing 80 percent of the time and on your page just 20 percent.

Danny Gregory

#12. Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

Albert Pike

#13. I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

Charlaine Harris

#14. What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?"
"It would take a miracle, obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures.

Max Perutz