Greg van Eekhout Quotes

'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.

Greg van Eekhout

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FamilyLovePowerTrustWorldBook

I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor.

John Coltrane

TimeListeningInfluenceEarlyYoung

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

OthersPityOnlyOurselvesThose

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

John Tukey

KnowledgeWorldDirectionKeyBelief

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

Steve Aoki

MyselfMoneySpoiledMadeSheltered

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

Rouben Mamoulian

TrustYouJudgmentIntuitionMust

I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.

Mary Steenburgen

MyselfFirstSingerWriterMuch

I happen to love the patriotic songs of America.

Mitt Romney

LoveAmericaHappenTo LoveSongs

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

Liz Smith

MotherFeelEnjoyYouCallBeing

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.

Cory Booker

JusticePastFinancialCommon Sense

I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14, and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though.

Christy Turlington

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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

Bono

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I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it or not, I'm a very, very private person! I don't even have WhatsApp! I don't like to pry into people's business.

Wissam Al Mana

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