The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, mar...
JOE ABERCROMBIE As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but do...
JOE ABERCROMBIE When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.
JOE ABERCROMBIE I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop mak...
JOE ABERCROMBIE One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great th...
JOE ABERCROMBIE That was the age of great men, doing what was right.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
JOE ABERCROMBIE I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Power is a bloody mirage. The closer you seem to get the further away it is
JOE ABERCROMBIE Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sw...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an ea...
JOE ABERCROMBIE The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
JOE ABERCROMBIE We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Has it ever occured to you, Master Ninefingers, that a sword is different from other weapons? Axes a...
JOE ABERCROMBIE He looked around at that one room, and the few things in it. He'd always thought retiring would be g...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Sometimes Wile wondered whether a cause could be right that needed folk burned, cut and otherwise mu...
JOE ABERCROMBIE But you love to play the good man,
don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villai...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they pu...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Lorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.'
'I would be the last to disagre...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE I've made peace with myself.
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't sa...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Surprise is like virginity. You only get the one chance at using it, and that normally turns out a c...
JOE ABERCROMBIE This is stupid."

"Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair tre...
JOE ABERCROMBIE One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are rea...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Life is a series of things we would rather not do.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Have you no pity?' Glokta could only shrug. 'I did have. As a boy I was soft-hearted beyond the poin...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Nothing had worked out the way he’d hoped. He should’ve expected it by now, maybe. After all, th...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.
JOE ABERCROMBIE First it is done to us, then we do it to others, then we order it done. Such is the way of things
JOE ABERCROMBIE We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one...
JOE ABERCROMBIE The lamplight gleamed on the Magus’ white grin. “People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superi...
JOE ABERCROMBIE They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured.
"Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowl...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the...
JOE ABERCROMBIE It always amazes me, how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people.
JOE ABERCROMBIE People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it su...
JOE ABERCROMBIE But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love lef...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by p...
JOE ABERCROMBIE If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
JOE ABERCROMBIE You have to realistic about these things.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.
JOE ABERCROMBIE I’ve fought in three campaigns,” he began. “In seven pitched battles. In countless raids and s...
JOE ABERCROMBIE That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of a life now.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Bravery is the dead man’s virtue.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Then, once he had eaten, he would ask the spirits for guidance. Their guidance was pretty useless, b...
JOE ABERCROMBIE There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of.
The Bloody-Nine...
JOE ABERCROMBIE There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.
JOE ABERCROMBIE But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crim...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.
JOE ABERCROMBIE You keep your guard too low, I am afraid. You are full of passion, but passion without discipline is...
JOE ABERCROMBIE A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond s...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of famil...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if h...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything ...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society whi...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous r...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every ...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefo...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual,...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on ...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize l...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which ...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to t...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and maki...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that i...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, i...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its ar...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us.
JASON ABERCROMBIE We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick up som...
JASON ABERCROMBIE Turtle came in and did a great job for us.
JASON ABERCROMBIE Their pitchers did a very good job of pitching to us and we didn't have the hits, but when you don't...
JASON ABERCROMBIE We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.
JASON ABERCROMBIE He came in and was able to locate his pitches and we made the plays behind him. He had pinpoint accu...
JASON ABERCROMBIE We did a good job of working the counts and getting good pitches to hit.
JASON ABERCROMBIE Our staff did a good job of getting ahead in the count with many of their hitters. They are a great ...
JASON ABERCROMBIE Our pitchers were missing spots. When you miss spots against a team like that, they make you pay. It...
JASON ABERCROMBIE We were so close against Auburn and Smiths Station and didn't get the win. Tonight we were finally a...
JASON ABERCROMBIE You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness ...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and ter...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I ...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both.
JOHN ABERCROMBIE I felt like there's a lot of kids that could have played quarterback. We picked (Doolittle) because ...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE They're young, and I'm getting older every game.
JOHN ABERCROMBIE One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to get...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You cou...
DAVID ABERCROMBIE From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rai...
DAVID ABERCROMBIE We're beefing up our rehab services for the coming years, including cardiac rehab.
DAVID ABERCROMBIE I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You cou...
DAVID ABERCROMBIE When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure ...
DAVE ABERCROMBIE We love to do this sort of thing. It gives us an opportunity to train in a more realistic environmen...
DAVE ABERCROMBIE Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they ha...
DAVE ABERCROMBIE These grass fires are getting very deadly. They burn homes down, they kill people, so this is not so...
DAVE ABERCROMBIE Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and ne...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ''Why are we doing this? Why don't t...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control their own land and their own money? When the la...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's c...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE Once Howard Dean lost the Iowa primary, there was no licking of wounds; there was no baying at the m...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE We believe there is not going to be any undermining of the environment.
NEIL ABERCROMBIE We are talking about the survival of this country.
NEIL ABERCROMBIE He formed Democracy for America, which took what was the foundation -- the Internet foundation -- an...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE The best time to achieve solutions is before a crisis, ... The next time a drought comes, it may be ...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE With troops in combat, the Congress has a non-negotiable obligation to weigh in heavily on the side ...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes yo...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state'...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording st...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE It's better here than in the minor leagues. The air is better, the food tastes better, the water is ...
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE I'm just trying to put the bat on the ball. I just want to help the team win whether I can do it on ...
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE They don't want to me to rush. They want my weight on my back side longer, and they want to use my l...
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE I'm not going to give up because he hasn't given up on me. I didn't expect him to throw BP when the ...
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE A whole lot of field and we both like to run. We'll try to play to our strength and go out there and...
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE I've got to get the feel of it.
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE Every day, we all came in and worked hard together. This was an opportunity for all of us.
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE Just awesome. All them seats surrounding you.
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE I got to keep it going. I might run into another [slump], so I can't get a big head.
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE It's frustrating to start slow like this. But you got to look at the long run. It's a process. Once ...
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE Our market is not characteristic of the nation in so many ways, but one of the more unusual facts is...
LORRAINE ABERCROMBIE I think it's still low interest rates, and we're a good buy here in Houston.
LORRAINE ABERCROMBIE The Houston home market has never been in better shape.
LORRAINE ABERCROMBIE The statistics seem to reflect that many of the people who sought shelter in and around Houston have...
LORRAINE ABERCROMBIE The early heat-up in temperatures and the relatively few number of days with rain have definitely co...
LORRAINE ABERCROMBIE I caught him sniffing gas from the stove, so we had to put a lock on the gas cut-off valve.
JANET ABERCROMBIE I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You cou...
DAVID ABERCROMBIE There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly gra...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now ...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase tha...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, n...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You cou...
DAVID ABERCROMBIE We are ready to begin fulfilling these orders as soon as we get a ... contract.
GEORGE ABERCROMBIE I never thought this would happen to my kid. He still doesn't think he has a problem. He doesn't bel...
JANET ABERCROMBIE When my son, William, was 7, I caught him sniffing gasoline. He was getting pretty high on it, so I ...
JANET ABERCROMBIE The kid (catcher) had him blocked off at the plate and he went to the outside and was able to sneak ...
JASON ABERCROMBIE The kids are playing with a lot of confidence right now. They are hitting the ball at a good time an...
JASON ABERCROMBIE Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God.
JOE JOE DAWSON Almost All Christians want to taste the fruits of revival but only a few will do what's necessary to...
JOE JOE DAWSON I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a re...
JOE FRAZIER When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
JOE THEISMANN If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn...
JOE BIDEN Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must ...
JOE LIEBERMAN Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understand...
JOE TORRE You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shou...
JOE SLOVO So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that'...
JOE ARPAIO Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
JOE PATERNO You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true profes...
JOE PATERNO I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's righ...
JOE WURZELBACHER Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through...
JOE CRAFT If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupa...
JOE GIBBS Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
JOE SLOVO After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas t...
JOE NAMATH I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
JOE WILSON Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
FAT JOE I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect ...
FAT JOE I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a h...
FAT JOE Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get h...
FAT JOE If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era...
FAT JOE I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks...
FAT JOE Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees qu...
FAT JOE Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he...
FAT JOE All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot...
FAT JOE Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten...
FAT JOE Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even ...
FAT JOE Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm ...
FAT JOE When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over ev...
FAT JOE Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be...
FAT JOE To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of...
FAT JOE Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
FAT JOE When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many m...
FAT JOE Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to m...
FAT JOE As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
FAT JOE I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don&#...
FAT JOE See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
FAT JOE We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we brin...
FAT JOE I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
FAT JOE Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do ...
FAT JOE I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put...
JOE BIDEN If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
JOE ROGAN Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of...
JOE ROGAN When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet....
JOE ALWYN As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with ...
JOE MONTANA I don't bow down to the federal government.
JOE ARPAIO