Illyanna Quotes & Sayings

In the past, being successful meant working hard and being smart. In the future, success will be the ability to ignore advertisements and to disconnect from social media long enough to actually create something of value. If you believe in yourself, if you cultivate focus, you will arrive at the finish line of self-sufficiency and abundance. — Markus Almond

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. — J.R.R. Tolkien

For just as the Milesians believed in Oracles, Malesians believed in Bomohs. Malesian Bomohs or Dukuns, just as the Sibyls, went into convulsions or ecstatic trances to proclaim the wishes of the Gods. But Malesian Bomohs did more. They claimed to be able to capture Spirits which they kept as pets. And these pet spirits could be sold or hired out to clients, to perform minor supernatural feats or miracles.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

Even if we're far apart, let's have hope and keep working hard. — Yoochun

We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers. — Janette Oke

The road does not always bring out the best in people. — Patterson Hood

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work. — Tom Stoppard

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. — Saskya Pandita

I can see that the tennis for the fans could be a bit boring, and these days you have these new modern things which you can do, and you have a lot of time, because you just play a match, and practise, and many times in between you can bring many things to the fans. — Tomas Berdych

I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing. — Jay Roach

I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you've got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser. — Jon Ronson

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. — Mark Van Doren

Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent. — Jack Kirby

My firstborn and my baby both tried to shed me like a husk from the start, and the twins came with a fine interior sight with which they could simply look past me at everything more interesting. — Barbara Kingsolver

I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity. — Tomi Ungerer