Midkemia Quotes & Sayings

I work. And I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work. — Ned Vizzini

The open road. What a trio of words. What a vision of blue sky and untouched hills and narrow trails heading God knew where and being free - free and hungry, free and cold, free and wet, free and lost. Who could mourn such conditions, faced with the alternative? — Meg Rosoff

Holding you
Watching night turn to day
Turn to night
And back to day again
Loving you
Loving us
Loving — Ron Bishop

All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang. — Raymond E. Feist

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director. — Daniel Radcliffe

The titles are born, worn, discarded, forgotten, and none of them matter. — George R R Martin

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different. — Andy Murray

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are. — Chuck Hagel

Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this entity outside the precincts of the damned, except in the fevered fantasies of a raving paranoid psychopath — Dean Koontz

Here was a healer who went to war, a warrior who would plead for peace, a homebody who again and again left his small comforts to aid others. — Wendy C. Fries

Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy. — Julie Harvey Delcourt

But I couldn't. It was real; I knew it, even in the dark. Raised yellow streak of paint on the wing and feathers scratched in with the butt of the brush. One chip on the upper left edge that hadn't been there before, tiny mar less than two millimeters, but otherwise: perfect. I was different, but it wasn't. And as the light flickered over it in bands, I had the queasy sense of my own life, in comparison, as a patternless and transient burst of energy, a fizz of biological static just as random as the street lamps flashing past. — Donna Tartt

if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path. — Andy Crouch

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. — Carl Jung

The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power. — Garry Wills

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings. — Paulo Coelho