Thijs Vanneste Quotes

#1. Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.

C.P. Cavafy

#2. Accept these grateful tears ... For thee they flow, for thee ...
That ever felt another's woe.

Homer

#3. It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.

Jeanne Moreau

#4. Ashley waddled back into the room and dropped into the seat next to me. "What did i miss?" I'd honestly forgotten she existed. Oh, if only dad would, too.

Katie McGarry

#5. The operating room turns you into somebody who's never wrong. Much like writing."
"Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right some day is the perversity that draws you on.

Philip Roth

#6. Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now.

Sylvia Earle

#7. As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

Frank Delaney

#8. I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.

Jason Bateman

#9. I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.

John Battelle

#10. One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.

Rudy Giuliani