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Bernard Cornwell Quotes

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Bernard Cornwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: February 23, 1944

Topics

Life Happiness Mountains Sail Mean

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Jimmy Carter

Leadership Myself Down Done Way

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

Jerry Mathers

Hollywood Square Center Squares

In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the storytelling, in the writing. You just want to connect to something that you feel is real.

Matt Czuchry

Writing Reality End Feel You Want

I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

Amanda Peet

Family Husband Important Try Hippie

When I'm on stage, the songs that we've chosen to play from the back catalog are things that still resonate with me, and matter to me. And the songs that I couldn't be a part of, we don't play anymore.

Trent Reznor

Me Back Play Matter Stage Things

In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin.

Tony Hawk

Amazing Doing New Skating Own Spin

I don't want people to spend their nights worrying about getting hit by asteroids. But I do want them to encourage their political leaders to invest in the insurance, which will allow us to prevent it from happening.

Rusty Schweickart

People Political Insurance Want Will

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Rollo May

Practice People Colleagues Problem

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.

Michael Vick

Time Myself Culture Fun Me Cool

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

Christopher Buckley

Blessing Child Only Child Advantage

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

Beginning End Now Even Perhaps

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

Portia Simpson-Miller

Girl School High School Deep Born