Ramizid Quotes & Sayings

The truth is that good fantasies carefully limit the magic that's possible. In fact, the magic has to be defined, at least in the author's mind, as a whole new set of natural laws that cannot be violated during the course of the story. That is, if at the beginning of the story you have established that your hero can make only three wishes, you better not have him come up with a fourth wish to save his neck right at the end. That's cheating, and your reader will be quite correct to throw your book across the room and carefully avoid anything you ever write in the future. All speculative fiction stories have to create a strange world and introduce the reader to it - but good fantasy must also establish a whole new set of natural laws, explain them right up front, and then faithfully abide by them throughout. — Orson Scott Card

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that's all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it. — Joshua Michael Stern

We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which — Catherine Ryan Hyde

My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it. — Billy Gibbons

A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity. — Warren Buffett

My fans like the rebel in me. — Gloria Trevi

We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life. — Common

Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice. — David Foster

Everyone around them seem oblivious to their own brand of intimacy. — Michael Banebrook

The task is the same in every generation: If God's Word is to be heard, we who love it must stand in its defense. — James R. White

He (recently-appointed and new-to-command Robert E Lee) will be timid in the irresolute in action. — George B. McClellan

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy. — Honore De Balzac

Art is not nature ... There was a lot more to be got out of color. — Pierre Bonnard

Not sure if there is a God or why some all-powerful being would give half a damn about the likes of me. — Ellen Hopkins

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. — Walter Scott