Palliser Quotes

#1. For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Charles Palliser

#2. True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

Stephen Covey

#3. To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.

Charles Palliser

#4. My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

Charles Palliser

#6. I told you before, I'll fight anyone. I don't care.

Oscar De La Hoya

#7. I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.

Daniel Humm

#8. Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

Guy Kawasaki

#9. Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

Anthony Trollope

#10. To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

Charles Palliser

#11. I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

Hugh Bonneville

#12. I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Charles Palliser

#13. I quickly turned my thoughts away from my mother's overbearing prudence before I might accidentally see reason in it.

William Ritter

#14. Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

Charles Palliser

#15. I like to have a plan," said Mr. Palliser. "And so do I," said his wife,
"if only for the sake of not keeping it.

Anthony Trollope

#16. Without the assumption that an advantage will be long-lived, the urgency of an organization to move quickly increases.

Rita Gunther McGrath

#17. That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.

Charles Palliser

#19. I've recently rediscovered Anthony Trollope. I used to read him back in college, and a friend turned me on to a whole new series of his work, 'The Palliser Series.' It's a series of seven or eight books.

Kevin Kwan

#20. I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.

Jonas Mekas

#21. In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.

Charles Palliser

#22. Why does not the stunning evidence of the last miracle grant me confidence in the next crisis? Because my immaturity does not permit such a faith, my desperate prayer is that God would grant me a robust faith sufficient to trust Him not for one crisis, but for an eternity of miracles.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this.

Robert Ley

#24. The way that I approach helping is to first make sure that I understand ...

Bobby Sager

#25. Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you'll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.

Tom Burns