John Tesh Quotes

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

John Tesh

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WorkGoodGreatYourselfThinkYou

Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.

Jim Crace

ProgressMeBookMusePresence

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Jeremy Taylor

GoodGodManHimReasonConscience

I'll go on '60 Minutes,' and whereas other parents would be like, 'You did a great job. I'm so proud of you,' my mother will be like, 'Your hair - it was not nice.'

Maysoon Zayid

MotherGreatJobParentsHairProud

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.

Michael Dirda

ArtSpaceLongBackMuseumOut

Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made.

Stephen Kinzer

TraditionPortraitFirstMadeDefy

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

Shirley MacLaine

BeautifulPeopleBad PeopleLoseBad

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

Roald Dahl

MyselfBraveDownSoldiersOutGot

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.

Rod Parsley

BelieveRevolutionEndAmericaSee

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Michael Nesmith

GoodPeopleGood PeopleBad People

Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.

Chris Gibson

BestApproachSyriaEscalating

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

Colm Toibin

BeautyArtTravelMeComfortBelief

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Clarence Thomas

PeopleWhiteWonderWrongStarting

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