Sir Richard Francis Burton Quotes

#1. Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Alan Dean Foster

#2. I can't think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

Daniel Willey

#3. For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.

Brian Froud

#4. Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends

Dean Cavanagh

#5. The sculptor starts with a block of stone and imagines the creation within. The writer takes the reader's imagination and fashions his creation from without.

Mark A. Morris

#6. I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

Michael Phelps

#7. There is a fundamental problem with regulators. If a regulator agrees to change a rule and something bad happens, they could easily lose their career. Whereas if they change a rule and something good happens, they don't even get a reward.

Ashlee Vance

#8. Your dreams are what will tear you apart. Every man is the victim of his own imagination: we all carry the seeds of our own destruction." He tapped a long finger to his forehead. "It feeds on your fears.

Mark Lawrence

#9. When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Ellen Key

#10. I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.

Jim Butcher

#11. The advice I got from many quarters was 'do your time, don't let the time do you.

Piper Kerman

#12. One girl, actually, in the UK - it was a really small show in Wales - a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She'd decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.

Lights

#13. I hope they don't reveal everything they know about me.

Raymond Berry