Quiller Memorandum Quotes & Sayings

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life. — Robert Anton Wilson

Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look. — Ann Curry

STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, the middle trilogy the fall of the Empire, and the last trilogy involves the rebuilding of the Republic. It won't be finished for probably another 20 years. — George Lucas

To me, speed is really about convenience. — Marissa Mayer

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. — Barbara Cartland

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. — Howard Gordon

Listen to me, young Hardy. A day will come for you when play becomes torment. When you are drowning, not in water but on dry land. In that hour remember me. I will preserve you. — Steven Pressfield

Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope. — Alistair Begg

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should. — Ann Patchett

It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back." — Carlos Alomar

Enlightenment, it is a moment of complete clarity, of pure bliss. At that instant everything will be revealed to you. — Tan Twan Eng