Calanchi Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation. — John Bunyan

Being a hero was much easier than being a coward. To be a hero, you only had to be brave for a moment - when you took out the gun, threw the bomb, pressed the detonator, did away with the tyrant, and away with yourself as well. But to be a coward was to embark on a career that lasted a lifetime. You couldn't ever relax. You had to anticipate the next occasion when you would have to make excuses for yourself, dither, cringe, reacquaint yourself with the taste of rubber boots and the state of your own fallen, abject character. Being a coward required pertinacity, persistence, a refusal to change - which made it, in a way, a kind of courage. — Julian Barnes

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. — Sydney Pollack

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. — Sun Tzu

Had to be here to understand, he had said. He'd meant here in Chicago; but he could also have meant here in my shoes, an older black man who still burns from a lifetime of insults, of foiled ambitions, of ambitions abandoned before they've been tried. I asked myself if I could truly understand that. I assumed, took for granted, that I could. Seeing me, these men had made the same assumption. — Barack Obama

It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community. — William Gibson

I'll keep you safe, because the moment I saw you I knew you'd be mine. — Jenika Snow

You are quick, for a dancing master, said Ser Meryn. You are slow, for a knight, Syrio replied. — George R R Martin

What you call man is time. — Terence McKenna

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric. — Anna Deavere Smith

It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience. — Stanley Kubrick

You just have to be comfortable in your own skin before you jump into something where people that you're going against are going to be better than you in some way every time. — Tiffany Thornton