Troy Landry Quotes

#1. We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. But while her world was soft and comfortable, offering everything I could ever want, it all came too easy. There was something to be said for patience and hard work.

Alyson Noel

#3. Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?

Jeaniene Frost

#4. Life is only a dream and we are only the imagination of ourselves.

Bill Hicks

#5. I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Susan Choi

#6. It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#7. The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.

Steve Vai

#8. Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else - and failing.

Raymond Radiguet

#9. The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are, with the necessary narrative retardation, at his beck and call.

Darko Suvin

#10. A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.

Kevin Bacon

#11. I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Julie Mehretu

#12. There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at directions to the next place they're not going to look at.

Stephen Clarke

#13. Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.

Elbert Hubbard

#14. My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.

Tess Gerritsen

#15. Study the science of art and the art of science.

Leonardo Da Vinci