Quotes By Author | Novelguide

"The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it."

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

"Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!"

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."