Romanticists Quotes

#1. The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. The Romanticists did not present a hero as a statistical average, but as an abstraction of man's best and highest potentiality, applicable to and achievable by all men, in various degrees, according to their individual choices.

Ayn Rand

#3. About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

Michael Caine

#4. I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

James Ellroy

#5. Bad men cannot make good citizens.

Patrick Henry

#6. Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost everyone believes that we can have sex without love; mosr folks do not believe that a couple can have love in a relationship if there is no sex.

Bell Hooks

#7. Mercury. Lead. Antimony. A cresent moon sits at the nape of her neck; and Egyptian ankh near her collarbone. There are other symbols as well: Norse runes, Chinese characters.
It is part of who I was, who I am, and who I will be.

Erin Morgenstern

#8. Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.

Henri Nouwen

#9. I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about.

Shannon Hale

#10. It's awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you're ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.
She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.

Jill Shalvis

#12. I like to improvise.

Iris Apfel

#13. Despite all the confidence I had in my ability to do my job, I hadn't had any in myself as a person.

Jana Deleon

#14. Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended ... then go forward on foot!

George S. Patton

#15. Mistakes don't make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.

Frank Sonnenberg

#16. When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

Zach Woods