Quotes with destroyer—and

Quotes 15121 till 15140 of 25137.

  • Billy Boyd Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
    - +
     0
  • Jimmy Connors Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
    Jimmy Connors
    American tennis player (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Emma Goldman Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
    - +
     0
  • G. C. Lichtenberg Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
    - +
     0
  • Buzz Aldrin Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benny Green Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
    Benny Green
    American musician
    - +
     0
  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, - you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
    - +
     0
  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
    - +
     0
  • Francis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Johnson Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
    - +
     0
  • William Faulkner Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
    - +
     0
  • Carol Berg Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bernard Malamud Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Kingsolver Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Angela Carter Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
    - +
     0
  • George Washington Carver Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
    - +
     0
  • David Hume Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
    - +
     0
  • Brad Henry Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ben Okri Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
    - +
     0
All destroyer—and famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 757)