Daunele Quotes & Sayings

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men ... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir. — B.C. Forbes

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. — Philip Warren Anderson

At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck. — Engelbert Humperdinck

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch. — Daniel Handler

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. — Martin Gardner

The word 'hate' is a very carefully chosen word. There's got to be a real sense of revulsion and disgust. People are looking for someone to blame, someone who's the cause of their problems, and it should be the gun industry. These guys are the living embodiment of the slogan, 'Guns don't kill people-people kill people'. They're complete mercenaries. — Josh Sugarmann

There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit. — Stephen Sondheim

Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that's what you love about them. — Melissa Rosenberg

We hold this land only for a time. Whether we win it in peace or war, we hold it only in trust for other peoples, and other generations. — Louis L'Amour

When you are young, you go where you wish, but when you are old, others will take you where you do not wish to go. — Jennifer Worth

But Hale wasn't just a member of her crew who had messed up. He was Hale. Her Hale. And Kat just wanted him back. — Ally Carter

A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice. — Morgan Dragonwillow

We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. WE DEFINE OURSELVES. — Cynthia Eden

Over and over in the butterfly we see the idea of transcendence. In the forest we see not the inert but the aspiring. In water that departs forever and forever returns, we experience eternity. — Mary Oliver

Why was he here? Why was he always, always, always around? Didn't he have a life? Didn't he have anything better to do? — Diana Peterfreund