Wondersmith Quotes

#1. Brandy, which is fallen and accursed wine, as devils are fallen and accursed angels ...
("The Wondersmith")

Fitz-James O'Brien

#2. This wine is grand. This poison is grand. It is fine to have good wine to drink, and good poison to kill with, is it not?
("The Wondersmith")

Fitz-James O'Brien

#3. I lay my cheek on his solid back. I realize this is the real Jacade. The man who's strong and fierce, but vulnerable and damaged. Confident and dominating, but generous and kind.

M.K. Gilher

#4. I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

Lauren Bacall

#5. Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Errol Morris

#6. A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#7. I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

Jack Canfield

#8. Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Robert Baden-Powell

#9. What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

Philippe Petit