Ascalon Club Quotes & Sayings

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and ... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return. — Christopher Paolini

I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge of his patience came into view, even small physical details like the sickle-shaped scar on the top of his right forearm and the small flourish he made with his hand whenever he set down a tool, as if he was brushing bad air away from it. — Roland Merullo

Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other. — W. J. T. Mitchell

Set your soul to greatness. You will be great. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm. — Seanan McGuire

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band. — Brooke Burke

He who comes first, eats first. — Eike Of Repgow

The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other. — Gene Hackman

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics. — Richard M. Nixon

Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed too painful to face, while virtually every revolution for peace and justice has been made possibly by a group of people who chose to bear witness and demanded that others bear witness as well. — Melanie Joy

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs. — Johnny Vegas

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure. — Eleanor Roosevelt