William Baskerville Quotes

#1. When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.

Marshawn Lynch

#2. I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

Parker Stevenson

#3. You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

Pharoahe Monch

#4. The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

Dick Ebersol

#5. It was the desolate terror of a man who knows that fate has abandoned him, and death's already inside, stretching and swelling and filling up the life-space that used to be his. It

Gregory David Roberts

#6. ... the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.

Umberto Eco

#7. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

#8. Suddenly realised that if he felt that he had achieved nothing it was because he had failed to cherish what he had in fact done. He had filled his days doing ordinary, unexceptional things and thought nothing of them. But they were far from nothing:

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party.

Louise Penny

#10. The concept of romantic love as a widely accepted cultural value and as the ideal basis of marriage was a product of the nineteenth century.

Nathaniel Branden

#11. He heard a sickening thunk, his head twisting to the side just in time to see that Darnell had a five-inch-long dart sticking out of his shoulder, its thin metal shaft planted deep within the muscle. Blood trickled down from the wound. The boy made a strange grunt as he collapsed to the ground.

James Dashner

#12. Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book ...
William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours.

Umberto Eco

#13. When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14. When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did my first stories, developed my first films. A fabulous time.

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