Rick DeMarinis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
-- Rick DeMarinis

#Kings #Forever #Deeds
A thousand books on tennis wonâ€™t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.
-- Rick DeMarinis

#Book #Tennis #Thousand
The Ploughmen is as good a book as Iâ€™ve read in years. Kim Zupanâ€™s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthyâ€™s, and like Cormacâ€™s, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. Iâ€™m also reminded of James Lee Burkeâ€™s sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous...nothing short of brilliant...a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next.
-- Rick DeMarinis

#Zero #Book #Heart

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.

Rick DeMarinis famous quotes

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