David Eddings quote: "I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over."

These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?"

Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to thin...
DAVID EDDINGS

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try ...
DAVID EDDINGS

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.
DAVID EDDINGS

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
DAVID EDDINGS

Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.
DAVID EDDINGS

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scho...
DAVID EDDINGS

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in...
DAVID EDDINGS

My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against ...
DAVID EDDINGS

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have...
DAVID EDDINGS

I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
DAVID EDDINGS

The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his ...
DAVID EDDINGS

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.
DAVID EDDINGS

There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scho...
DAVID EDDINGS

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.
DAVID EDDINGS

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mi...
DAVID EDDINGS

Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the en...
DAVID EDDINGS

One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't tre...
DAVID EDDINGS

Have you ever noticed that? We base our assessment of the intelligence of others almost entirely on ...
DAVID EDDINGS

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they...
DAVID EDDINGS

Will you never grow up?"
"I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.
DAVID EDDINGS

Is it my birthday again? Already? Where does the time go?"
"Behind us --or in front. It ...
DAVID EDDINGS

We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.
--Beldin
DAVID EDDINGS

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk."
"It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect...
DAVID EDDINGS

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
DAVID EDDINGS

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed.

I lied." Silk said. "...
DAVID EDDINGS

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.
DAVID EDDINGS

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probab...
DAVID EDDINGS

God save us from religion.
DAVID EDDINGS

What was that?" Belgarath asked, coming back around the corner.
"Brill," Silk replied blandly, ...
DAVID EDDINGS

The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect f...
DAVID EDDINGS

—I can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.
<...
DAVID EDDINGS

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana’s country were about as big as a tree could get,” he sai...
DAVID EDDINGS

I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before."
"You're a fortunate man," Wol...
DAVID EDDINGS

I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry."
"That might explain a lot," Beldin...
DAVID EDDINGS

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous."
"Who made up that rule?"
"It's a known fact...
DAVID EDDINGS

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it...
...
DAVID EDDINGS

Garion,' she said very calmly, 'the universe knew your name before that moon up there was spun out o...
DAVID EDDINGS

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may...
DAVID EDDINGS

Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? DAVID EDDINGS

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I wor...
DAVID EDDINGS

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate?
-Eriond
DAVID EDDINGS

When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in ...
DAVID EDDINGS

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to...
DAVID EDDINGS

Water....I'm thirsty not dirty.
DAVID EDDINGS

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
DAVID EDDINGS

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.
DAVID EDDINGS

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it you...
DAVID EDDINGS

We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on...
DAVID EDDINGS

It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get heal...
DAVID EDDINGS

This technology will take games such as
DAVID EDDINGS

It’s common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood design...
DAVID EDDINGS

Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pul...
DAVID EDDINGS

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow every...
DAVID EDDINGS

You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabb...
DAVID EDDINGS

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.

“Not if I can avoid it, no.
DAVID EDDINGS

You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.
DAVID EDDINGS

You're impossible," she told him.
"Of course I am," he answered. "It's part of my charm.
DAVID EDDINGS

The queen sighed. "What am I going to do with all of you now!"
"You're going to let us continu...
DAVID EDDINGS

The quality of student work has definitely gone downhill since they discontinued the use of the whip...
DAVID EDDINGS

Trust me. - Silk
DAVID EDDINGS

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides ful...
DAVID EDDINGS

Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of lik...
DAVID EDDINGS

He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eye...
DAVID EDDINGS

I want to set the record straight."
"The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever r...
DAVID EDDINGS

What am I going to do?" asked Ce'Nedra.

"First you ought to go wash your face," Polgara t...
DAVID EDDINGS

You won't be able to do it wrong, Durnik--any more than you'd be able to lie or cheat or steal. It's...
DAVID EDDINGS

I wouldn't do that," Silk advised. "Thinking about it isn't going to help, and it's only going to ma...
DAVID EDDINGS

Your--ah--intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer h...
DAVID EDDINGS

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
DAVID EDDINGS

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
DAVID EDDINGS

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the...
DAVID EDDINGS

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
DAVID EDDINGS

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimist...
DAVID EDDINGS

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery busin...
DAVID EDDINGS

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain n...
DAVID EDDINGS

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sym...
DAVID EDDINGS

As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood—unless he happens ...
DAVID EDDINGS

You must learn that that’s what friends and family are for – to be imposed upon. One of the Card...
DAVID EDDINGS

As they prepared to mount, Barak's horse, a large, sturdy gray, sighed and threw a reproachful look ...
DAVID EDDINGS

I note this hound of thine, Sir Knight," he said to Garion to ease them past an embarrassing moment,...
DAVID EDDINGS

somewhat
DAVID EDDINGS

The only thing I'm down on myself is I should have sold it either way. I should have either said, 'N...
DOUG EDDINGS

I didn't have him catching the ball.
DOUG EDDINGS

We saw a couple different angles, and if you watch it, the ball changes direction, so I don't see ho...
DOUG EDDINGS

Yes. That's why I was pretty shocked at what took place.
DOUG EDDINGS

My interpretation is that's my 'strike three' mechanic when it's a swinging strike. If you watch, th...
DOUG EDDINGS

He's got to make an attempt to get out of the way, and he made no attempt.
DOUG EDDINGS

We saw it on a couple different angles, the ball changes directions. I had questions. I didn't have ...
DOUG EDDINGS

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD

Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY

I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY

People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY

The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE

People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE

The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE

I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY

I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY

I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY

Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY

When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY

I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY

It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY

Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY

Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY

I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY

You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

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David Eddings

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

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