The Lost Crown Quotes

#1. A shepherd's crown, not a royal one. A crown for someone who knew where she had come from. A crown for the lone light zigzagging through the night sky, hunting for a single lost lamb. A crown for the shepherd who was there to herd away the predators.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. The first method is to think across the traditional boundaries of your marketplace to alternatives, not just competitors.

Brian Halligan

#4. Depth is not something the writer puts into a book; it's something the reader takes out of it.

Michael Carroll

#5. And the sun had on a crown
Wrought of gilded thistledown,
And a scarf of velvet vapor
And a raveled rainbow gown;
And his tinsel-tangled hair
Tossed and lost upon the air
Was glossier and flossier
Than any anywhere.

James Whitcomb Riley

#6. The Holy Grail, the most precious of all Christ's bequests to man, lost these thousand years and more, and he could see it glowing in the sky like shining blood and about it, bright as the glittering crown of a saint, rays of dazzling shimmer filled the heaven. Thomas

Bernard Cornwell

#7. For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Richard Bach

#8. Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them

Dan Schilling

#9. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Everything in the Universe denies 'nothing'. To suggest an ending is the one absurdity -The Man in Black from Stephen King's The Gunslinger

Stephen King

#10. My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Edith Stein

#11. The pair of us are like salt and sugar: such different flavors, but so close in every other way you could never sort us apart once we're together.

Sarah Miller

#12. Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space.

Kim Harrison

#13. To make a name in the language of the Bible is to construct an identity for ourselves. We either get our name - our defining essence, security, worth, and uniqueness - from what God has done for us and in us (Revelation 2:17), or we make a name through what we can do for ourselves.

Timothy Keller

#14. That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

J.K. Rowling

#15. Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

Moses

#16. Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

Nita Leland

#17. There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.

George Eliot

#18. It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

Grimes