Eisbergen Quotes & Sayings

It is not that you know nothing about war, young man ... It is that you have learnt one thing. And war is many things. — Richard Flanagan

Why would you want to make them happy?" Amberdrake turned back to his little friend, and sat with a sad smile on his face. "Because they are bitter, unhappy people, and very little else makes them happy. They say what they do out of envy, for any number of reasons. It may be because I lead a more luxurious life than they, or at least they believe I do. It may be because there are many people who do call me friend, and those are all folk of great personal worth; a few of them are people that occupy high position and deservedly so. Perhaps it is because they cannot do what I can, and for some reason, this galls them. But they have so little else that gives them pleasure, I see no reason to deprive them of the few drops of enjoyment they can extract from heaping scorn and derision on me." Gesten shook his head. "Drake, you're crazy. But I already knew that. I'm getting some sleep; this is all too much for me. Good night." "Good night, Gesten," Amberdrake said — Mercedes Lackey

History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device. — Josh Fox

As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress. — Jurnee Smollett

Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone. — R.A. MacAvoy