David Eddings
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STROUBE RONALD KESSLER When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear... CARLISLE FLOYD RAGHURAM RAJAN You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want ... DAVID E. KELLEY I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that a... FRITZ KREISLER My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark... J. R. SMITH ERIK LARSON Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do n... DR. C. E. WELCH I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in on... MICHAEL ROSENBAUM It was a swing. Our catcher caught it. Doug Eddings called him out and somewhere along the line, bec... MIKE SCIOSCIA 'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life. DICK VAN DYKE CYNTHIA OZICK Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people c... TOM HEINSOHN IYANLA VANZANT ERIC KANDEL DOROTHY L. SAYERS PAUL PIERCE RICK RIORDAN When I talked to evacuees, one of the things that struck me was that so many of them were saying, 'A... WADE HORN When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own... GAO XINGJIAN You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a pro... TOBIN BELL BAT FOR LASHES ANNETTE BENING After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as ... ROBBIE ROBERTSON LAURELL K. HAMILTON FRANK ROBINSON Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as ... HANNA ROSIN ROB LOWE CORY DOCTOROW The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're n... EUGENE MIRMAN JOSS WHEDON The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel li... TAYA KYLE MARGARET ATWOOD OMARI HARDWICK The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m... BIG SEAN SHIRLEY MACLAINE My mom used to say, 'Give me my flowers while I can smell them,' and I got the same feeling when I f... HARRY CARSON In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. The... SHEREEN EL FEKI MICHELLE OBAMA Men coming out of the high school system know they will be taken care of by the bounty of the state.... BEN REILLY You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time fo... ELMER BERNSTEIN Whenever I perform, I try to share my childhood experiences with nature. They had a tremendous effec... VINCENT MANTSOE GEORGE SAND JULIAN BARNES I have God, Jesus Christ: I'm Christian. I try to stay as grounded as I possibly can. And I have... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questio... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - m... EDIE FALCO MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You... DOM DELUISE JONATHAN DEMME Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's ... KESHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you g... ROALD DAHL REBA MCENTIRE SHARON GLESS There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and strong... KACY CATANZARO Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which ... JANET STREET-PORTER DANIEL DAY-LEWIS IAIN DUNCAN SMITH One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in ... DIANE WAKOSKI DANNY STRONG Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON They said they'd bring me to as many games as they could out of [the Minor League] mini-camp. I've p... BRIAN BUCHANAN NAIMA ADEDAPO But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man wh... JAMES STOCKDALE When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I ... BILLY EICHNER One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've expe... KATE GRENVILLE ELLEN GLASGOW ERNESTINE ROSE JULIA CAMERON All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be... LIL' KIM PLATO GAIL GODWIN We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men... RAQUEL WELCH EMILIA FOX The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents'... IAN SCHRAGER BRUCE BARTON G.K. CHESTERTON AMITABH BACHCHAN Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me,... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT SAMMY CAHN DARYL HANNAH POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II
More David Eddings
These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?"DAVID EDDINGS I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. DAVID EDDINGS I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Midd... DAVID EDDINGS Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait. DAVID EDDINGS Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale. DAVID EDDINGS The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scho... DAVID EDDINGS I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in... DAVID EDDINGS My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against ... DAVID EDDINGS I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have... DAVID EDDINGS I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. DAVID EDDINGS The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his ... DAVID EDDINGS Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan. DAVID EDDINGS There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scho... DAVID EDDINGS Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective. DAVID EDDINGS Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mi... DAVID EDDINGS Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the en... DAVID EDDINGS One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't tre... DAVID EDDINGS Have you ever noticed that? We base our assessment of the intelligence of others almost entirely on ... DAVID EDDINGS Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they... DAVID EDDINGS Will you never grow up?"DAVID EDDINGS Is it my birthday again? Already? Where does the time go?"DAVID EDDINGS We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.DAVID EDDINGS Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk."DAVID EDDINGS Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things. DAVID EDDINGS I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed.DAVID EDDINGS When love is involved no sacrifice is too great. DAVID EDDINGS I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probab... DAVID EDDINGS God save us from religion. DAVID EDDINGS What was that?" Belgarath asked, coming back around the corner.DAVID EDDINGS The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect f... DAVID EDDINGS —I can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.DAVID EDDINGS I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana’s country were about as big as a tree could get,” he sai... DAVID EDDINGS I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before."DAVID EDDINGS I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry."DAVID EDDINGS Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous."DAVID EDDINGS Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it...DAVID EDDINGS Garion,' she said very calmly, 'the universe knew your name before that moon up there was spun out o... DAVID EDDINGS But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may... DAVID EDDINGS Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? DAVID EDDINGS The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I wor... DAVID EDDINGS Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate?DAVID EDDINGS When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in ... DAVID EDDINGS It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to... DAVID EDDINGS Water....I'm thirsty not dirty. DAVID EDDINGS As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head. DAVID EDDINGS ...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail. DAVID EDDINGS Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it you... DAVID EDDINGS We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on... DAVID EDDINGS It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get heal... DAVID EDDINGS This technology will take games such as DAVID EDDINGS It’s common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood design... DAVID EDDINGS Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pul... DAVID EDDINGS The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow every... DAVID EDDINGS You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabb... DAVID EDDINGS Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.DAVID EDDINGS You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace. DAVID EDDINGS You're impossible," she told him. DAVID EDDINGS The queen sighed. "What am I going to do with all of you now!" DAVID EDDINGS The quality of student work has definitely gone downhill since they discontinued the use of the whip... DAVID EDDINGS Trust me. - Silk DAVID EDDINGS All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides ful... DAVID EDDINGS Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of lik... DAVID EDDINGS He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eye... DAVID EDDINGS I want to set the record straight."DAVID EDDINGS What am I going to do?" asked Ce'Nedra.DAVID EDDINGS You won't be able to do it wrong, Durnik--any more than you'd be able to lie or cheat or steal. It's... DAVID EDDINGS I wouldn't do that," Silk advised. "Thinking about it isn't going to help, and it's only going to ma... DAVID EDDINGS Your--ah--intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer h... DAVID EDDINGS I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. DAVID EDDINGS I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story. DAVID EDDINGS This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the... DAVID EDDINGS If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own. DAVID EDDINGS I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimist... DAVID EDDINGS I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery busin... DAVID EDDINGS Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain n... DAVID EDDINGS I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sym... DAVID EDDINGS As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood—unless he happens ... DAVID EDDINGS You must learn that that’s what friends and family are for – to be imposed upon. One of the Card... DAVID EDDINGS As they prepared to mount, Barak's horse, a large, sturdy gray, sighed and threw a reproachful look ... DAVID EDDINGS I note this hound of thine, Sir Knight," he said to Garion to ease them past an embarrassing moment,... DAVID EDDINGS somewhat DAVID EDDINGS The only thing I'm down on myself is I should have sold it either way. I should have either said, 'N... DOUG EDDINGS I didn't have him catching the ball. DOUG EDDINGS We saw a couple different angles, and if you watch it, the ball changes direction, so I don't see ho... DOUG EDDINGS Yes. That's why I was pretty shocked at what took place. DOUG EDDINGS My interpretation is that's my 'strike three' mechanic when it's a swinging strike. If you watch, th... DOUG EDDINGS He's got to make an attempt to get out of the way, and he made no attempt. DOUG EDDINGS We saw it on a couple different angles, the ball changes directions. I had questions. I didn't have ... DOUG EDDINGS My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ... DAVID DAVID KATZMAN LARRY DAVID DAVID HAREWOOD DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ... DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo... DAVID LANGE DAVID LYNCH Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a... 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I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an ... 
My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their ow... 
My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their ow... 
Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a chi... 
For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was ar... 
In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, t... 
My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and with... 
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an act... 
Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making ... 
Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the e... 
When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I... 
Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great expe... 
I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can. 
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characte... 
I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can&... 
You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are mor... 
A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe... 
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try... 
Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest job... 
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delv... 
It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - wh... 
Meredith,” Taranis said, “how can you insult me like this? These men attacked a lady of my court... 
No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don'... 
I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know w... 
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really usef... 
I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had o... 
Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would up... 
Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & F... 
I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a chi... 
All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always ... 
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status ... 
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They... 
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it b... 
I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again wh... 
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want th... 
I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are ... 
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another... 
Politics is a rough trade and I can take it with the best of them. I have demonstrated I am capable ... 
I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really g... 
My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that... 
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. 
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there ar... 
My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way... 
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. 
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con... 
Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or... 
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than ... 
Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said:
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controve... 
My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love&#... 
That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible. 
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. 
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world.... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. 
Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? 
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s... 
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger... 