Forty Seven Ronin Quotes & Sayings

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it. — Umberto Eco

I was completely crazy and mad when I was young. I was absolutely in love with the dissolute. — John Hurt

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever. — Phil Cooke

Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation. — Margaret Thatcher

Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change. — Steven Curtis Chapman

Data had an idea, though. He grabbed a twenty-volt battery out of his pack and connected two long wires to each pole. Then he crouched in the pool and stuck the ends of the wires into the water. The leeches writhed all over him and fell off - electrocuted. — James Kahn

The scientist ... must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything. — Hermann Bondi

And thou shalt in thy daughter see,
This picture, once, resembled thee. — Ambrose Philips

We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else. — Glen Duncan

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going. — Nick Cannon

You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?"
"Mmm," I said. "I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house? — Patricia Briggs

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write. — Chinua Achebe

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free"
"You are free. You just don't know it yet — Francine Rivers