Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.
Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.
My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
Of course, there are hurtful moments of the malice and rumors - the worst are not the ones that affect you, but ones that affect other family members. But you have to distance yourself from it, otherwise you would be unhappy.