Quotes About Author

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.

It's nothing serious, " he said. "It's just an obsession.

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

Eden Fruitarianism is the solution to the dilemma of the screaming carrot.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.