Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Smith

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

Philip Pullman

It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.

Kevin J. Anderson

SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure.

Lewis Carroll

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

Joshua Slocum

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

Kandyse McClure

I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

Paul Kagame

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

Ovid

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Paul Verlaine

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Debby Ryan

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Colleen Hoover

I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.

Claudia Christian

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

Claudia Schiffer

Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.

Dalai Lama

The ultimate way to solve human problems is with nonviolence.

Dalai Lama

The only way to fail is to quit.

Dalai Lama

If you have a great deal of knowledge, but you're governed by negative emotions, then you tend to use your knowledge in negative ways. Therefore, while you are learning, don't forget the importance of warmheartedness.