Sir Apropos Of Nothing Quotes

#1. Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat upon'.

Peter David

#2. Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

Peter David

#3. Help me reach a friend in darkness; Help me guide him through the night. Help me show thy path to glory By the Spirit's holy light ...

Lorin F. Wheelwright

#4. Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death.

Peter David

#5. The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

Anatoly Chubais

#6. Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Peter David

#7. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Joyce Cary

#8. It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

Peter David

#9. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.

Peter David

#10. There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

Peter David

#11. I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

Peter David

#12. Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

Peter David

#13. The fear of man, the trust in man, the deference to the opinion of man, is the merest worship of a rag-stuffed idol.

George MacDonald

#14. It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

Patrick Ness

#15. Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

Peter David

#16. I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

Peter David

#17. I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.

Wilt Chamberlain

#18. Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Peter David

#19. Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.

Joel Fuhrman