The Walking Drum Quotes

#1. Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.

John Lahr

#2. The day after I became king, S'yan offered a single piece of wisdom. 'Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.' This was profound. For it meant that the majesty of kings lay in their mystique... not in their might.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

Dwight L. Moody

#4. I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

Woodrow Wilson

#5. Molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Exactly!' The pandit beamed again. 'So think about the colour of that leaf from the perspective of the leaf itself, the colours it absorbs and the one it rejects. Is its colour green? Or is it every single colour in the world except green?

Amish Tripathi

#7. The mountains are intimations of transcendence, which he is now free to pursue, and the walking writes messages in every cell of his body, telling him that he is not locked inside a cement box, nor in a water drum, but is moving forward.

Michael D. O'Brien

#8. Our best chance for happiness is education.

Mark Van Doren

#9. To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Lesley Garrett

#10. It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.

Stan Shih

#11. I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

George Lopez

#12. One wanted fifty pairs of eyes to see with, she reflected. Fifty pairs of eyes were not enough to get round that one woman with, she thought.

Virginia Woolf

#13. The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to mind is yours forever.

Louis L'Amour

#14. It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Jayson Blair

#15. The call of the horizon finds quick response in the heart of every wanderer.

Louis L'Amour

#16. To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

Jean Craighead George

#17. brought them along nevertheless, remembering the old line, it was better to have and not need, than need and not have. Gus shook his head once,

Keith C. Blackmore