Wardroom Mess Quotes

#1. Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air

Jock Brown

#2. His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.

Ernest Jones

#3. Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin

#4. You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.

Bob Proctor

#5. If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a primary virtue out of exactitude and economy of meaning: this has replaced metrical skill as the first thing the poet tunes to.

Martin Langford

#6. I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

Ellen Datlow

#7. Not a thing had happened the way she had planned, no, not a single thing! But it seemed to her she had never been so happy in her life.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#8. The path to success is not a straight line.

Harley King

#9. I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. I grew thinner and more ragged. I slept in rain or sun, on soft grass, moist earth, or sharp stones with an intensity of indifference that only grief can promote.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. A picture can tell a thousand words,
but a few words can change it's story.

Sebastyne Young