Pretenders F Sionil Jose Quotes

#1. I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

Kerry Packer

#2. A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

Voltaire

#3. It's been said that success doesn't lead to happiness; happiness creates success.

Carmine Gallo

#4. If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

Serj Tankian

#5. So: outside, and to the black rush of the Presumpscot River.
To freedom.
For me, the world was beginning.

Lauren Oliver

#6. Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.

Eric Weiner

#7. There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#8. She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

Helen Oyeyemi

#9. Have a story. And make sure it's a good one. A DAMN good one.

Hugh MacLeod

#10. The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

Scott Westerfeld

#11. When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.

Red Schoendienst

#12. If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.

Alain Ducasse

#13. Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Scott Westerfeld

#15. I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

Peter Landesman