Joshua Quotes

Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.

Chris Brown is SUCH a douchebag.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.

Trends toward increasing numbers of infection and increasing drug resistance show no sign of abating.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall.

I have been baptized twice- once in water...once in flame.

Lastly, waging war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the most important thing I've said.

I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

So much of performing is a mind game.

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

We live in the least ugly time in history.

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

I never trash talk, I don't like to trash talk. I like to be friends with all the other boxers.

I love fighting. One thing that is the key to that is I always love training. I love to. And I never drink before, no alcohol in my life, no smoke, nothing. I love training.

People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.

Invest your time, spend less of it, cause you simply can't afford it. Once spent, this time have you, gone will it be, somewhere in history.

Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen.

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be.

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.