Vasher Warbreaker Quotes

#1. Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

Andrew Sullivan

#2. It would be a mistake to think that fundamentalists are to be found only among the religious.

Stafford Betty

#3. Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

Jack Welch

#5. Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

Dick Costolo

#6. Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church.
Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks.
No, I realise. It's the reverse.

Scarlett Thomas

#7. He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

Jean De La Bruyere

#8. Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

Amedeo Modigliani

#9. As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.

Andrea Hirata

#10. Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

Nathaniel Branden

#11. London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

William Sansom

#12. To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#13. Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises
except for those of us who have vaginas.

Howard Stern

#14. Just start. A small business can take you to the level of empire.

Ehab Atalla

#15. Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

David Burr Gerrard