Ishmael Chambers Character Quotes & Sayings

What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern.
Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did. — Patrick Rothfuss

It isn't surprising if, as adults, when we first start to form relationships, we should devotedly go off in search of someone who can give us the all-encompassing, selfless love that we may once have known in childhood. Nor would it be surprising if we were to feel frustrated and in the end extremely bitter at how difficult it seems to be to find; at how seldom people understand what we need or care to help us properly. — Alain De Botton

Who better represents us, other than our Gods and their stories?" "What — Bala Krishna

If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be. — Liane Moriarty

I love you as a river loves the sea;
my every cell longing for you not me. — Debasish Mridha

I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get. — Rachel Roy

When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous. — Moby

Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home' — John Wooden

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old. — Erma Bombeck

The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors. — Michael Chabon

Kiss is another physical gesture if it doesn't touch your soul. — Pushpa Rana

We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him. — Margaret Whiting

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers. — Viola Davis

Our product will speak for itself if it's that good and your fan base will come and people will want it. Having the right people in your circle is very important to help support that. — Ledisi

Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be governed by us. — Niccolo Machiavelli