The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices wer...
RAYMOND E. FEIST There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go wit...
RAYMOND E. FEIST Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
RAYMOND E. FEIST The ways of the heart are complex.” He looked out at the ocean again. “The waves churn and break...
RAYMOND E. FEIST There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there w...
RAYMOND E. FEIST Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly...
RAYMOND E. FEIST I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes o...
RAYMOND E. FEIST Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15...
RAYMOND E. FEIST You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never...
RAYMOND E. FEIST All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always k...
RAYMOND E. FEIST Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess the...
RAYMOND E. FEIST But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I...
RAYMOND E. FEIST You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've...
RAYMOND E. FEIST Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.
RAYMOND E. FEIST Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.
RAYMOND E. FEIST Trying to guess the enemy’s next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointle...
RAYMOND E. FEIST It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to t...
RAYMOND E. FEIST Just remember that in most things, right or wrong depends on where you’re standing at the moment. ...
RAYMOND E. FEIST You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.
RAYMOND E. FEIST My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No....
RAYMOND E. FEIST All his life he has been in the shadow of Grandfather, and of the man for whom he was named."
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RAYMOND E. FEIST That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even...
RAYMOND E. FEIST The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surrounding...
RAYMOND E. FEIST In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with ...
RAYMOND E. FEIST ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST The pride Kaspar had seen in his father’s eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, ...
RAYMOND E. FEIST - Като дете изпитвах същото по клоните на големите дърв...
RAYMOND E. FEIST Ишап, морето е голямо, а лодката ми - малка. Имай милост �...
RAYMOND E. FEIST The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects t...
RAYMOND E. FEIST It’s tempting to think of yourself as powerful when those around you are far less so, but compared...
RAYMOND E. FEIST I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as ...
FEIST I live and die by puns.
FEIST On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. An...
FEIST Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be...
FEIST There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't und...
FEIST Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
FEIST I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the wa...
FEIST I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult ...
FEIST You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.
FEIST You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess....
FEIST 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries arou...
FEIST The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in...
FEIST When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it ab...
FEIST As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is ...
FEIST And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little...
FEIST Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
FEIST There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight fo...
FEIST There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it ...
FEIST Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatt...
FEIST 'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing ...
FEIST I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There&...
FEIST When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-fl...
FEIST Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky b...
FEIST When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It'...
FEIST There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces toge...
FEIST So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies...
FEIST The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what ...
FEIST I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about...
FEIST Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You re...
FEIST After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike abili...
FEIST I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, a...
FEIST I much prefer to write everything by myself. It's kind of difficult. It's like getting undressed in ...
LESLIE FEIST One of the things that is real neat to see is the start of the wheelchair race. That is really inspi...
CONNIE FEIST The noise level from those women has been measured as being higher than a jet.
CONNIE FEIST He suffered a high-ankle sprain, possibly a fracture.
CHRIS FEIST It was a real honor to us. They endorse the sport at a national level and are known on the racing ci...
CONNIE FEIST The real serious runners are at the front of the pack.
CONNIE FEIST It's a real good experience. It's a huge event out there.
CONNIE FEIST I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the baseme...
LESLIE FEIST 'Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-...
LESLIE FEIST We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing par...
LESLIE FEIST I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years...
RAYMOND BURR The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right butto...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would neve...
RAYMOND ARROYO If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
RAYMOND DUNCAN I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/...
RAYMOND OCHOA All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.
RAYMOND HULL I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is not a fragrant world.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise stateme...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have...
RAYMOND CARVER He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
RAYMOND HULL Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
RAYMOND CARVER However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
RAYMOND RADIGUET The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
RAYMOND CHANDLER A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated pe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
RAYMOND HULL You must see first before you can believe.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write...
RAYMOND CHANDLER There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude t...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, no...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His functi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more de...
RAYMOND CHANDLER When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes litera...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scho...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL A really good detective never gets married.
RAYMOND CHANDLER An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral gro...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Desire creates the power.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were d...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible ...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can m...
RAYMOND CHANDLER A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
RAYMOND CHANDLER She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
RAYMOND CHANDLER In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobod...
RAYMOND CHANDLER So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delive...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
RAYMOND CHANDLER The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis...
RAYMOND CHANDLER That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He...
RAYMOND CHANDLER They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.....
RAYMOND CHANDLER There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must se...
RAYMOND CHANDLER A good title is the title of a successful book.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your br...
RAYMOND CHANDLER 'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can ...
RAYMOND SPRUANCE The more you reason the less you create.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the ma...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statem...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN Don't let the University get in the way of your education.
RAYMOND BROWN I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the l...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
RAYMOND LOEWY Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targ...
RAYMOND KETHLEDGE I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a ch...
RAYMOND OCHOA Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
RAYMOND FLOYD Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
RAYMOND LOEWY 'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
RAYMOND ARROYO Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
RAYMOND CARVER One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man...
RAYMOND BURR A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical i...
RAYMOND CARVER The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
RAYMOND LOEWY I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost ...
RAYMOND BURR I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
RAYMOND CHANDLER The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look l...
RAYMOND LOEWY Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other...
RAYMOND LOEWY I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned mos...
RAYMOND KELLY Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf hol...
RAYMOND BONNER Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter...
RAYMOND BONNER I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the re...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in ever...
RAYMOND MOODY But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I cou...
RAYMOND CARVER It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
RAYMOND QUENEAU It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job...
RAYMOND AUBRAC There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yours...
RAYMOND BONNER No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it u...
RAYMOND MOODY No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the othe...
RAYMOND LOEWY Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
RAYMOND LINDQUIST It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
RAYMOND CHANDLER If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon ...
RAYMOND HERZOG To give your best is to receive the best.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam...
RAYMOND CHANDLER When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
RAYMOND CHANDLER California, the department store state.
RAYMOND CHANDLER In a developing country like Ghana, the issue about standardized testing is not different, because a...
RAYMOND OBENG I can understand that Muslims find the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the Norwegian weekly.....
RAYMOND JOHANSEN Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any sta...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking a...
RAYMOND ARROYO The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, footbal...
JONATHAN RAYMOND People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?'...
RAYMOND BURR