Vainqueur The Dragon Quotes

#1. Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

Eve Ensler

#2. Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.

George Saunders

#3. Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

Charles Kennedy

#4. The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

Julia Glass

#5. The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

John Armstrong

#6. In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

Gerald R. Ford

#7. Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.

Seth Godin

#8. I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

Liz Murray

#9. As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.

Martha Wells

#11. But many, perhaps most siblings share a private universe tropical with benevolence, betrayal, vendetta, reconciliation, and the use and abuse of power of which their parents know practically nothing.

Lauren Oliver

#12. By killing us, they showed us the idiocy of stuff. The guy who owned this BMW? He's in the same place as the woman who owned that Kia.

Rick Yancey

#13. A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

Tullian Tchividjian

#14. Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

Carl Sagan

#15. I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

Larry King