Venue Related Quotes

#1. Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. You're either the one that creates the automation or you're getting automated.

Tom Preston-Werner

#3. the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and will praise your Father in heaven.

Max Lucado

#4. I kind of just roll up on stage. I realize that as soon as I find myself wearing something that I haven't worn ten times in the past, I'm like, "Who am I right now? I don't recognize myself!"

Martina Sorbara

#5. Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.

Tony Grisoni

#6. Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

Joan Didion

#7. She didn't need to say that she was going to die sooner or later while he wasn't, because the fact hung over their heads like the sword of Damocles that dangled by a single hair.

Thea Harrison

#8. Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

Audrey Niffenegger

#9. Waiting by this staircase was Mr. Kent, who managed to both grimace at his stepmother and smile brightly at Laura.

Tarun Shanker

#10. They went on working for the promise of a pension and their "health benefits," which was ironic in that almost any other job would benefit their health better than any doctor's pills.

James Baldwin

#11. Trays of pastries from his castle kitchens, cream swans and spun-sugar unicorns, lemon cakes in the shape of roses, spiced honey biscuits and blackberry tarts, apple crisps and wheels of buttery cheese.

George R R Martin

#12. The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

James MacGregor Burns

#13. Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Ayn Rand

#15. I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

Gore Vidal