No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. Robert Byrne Robert Byrne ( 1930 – December 6, 2016) is an American author and Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame instructor of pool and carom billiards.
Quotes
Retirement
I’m against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do. Colonel Sanders Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American businessman, best known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (now… Read More ›
Killing
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire François-Marie Arouet ( 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian… Read More ›
Inspiration
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the… Read More ›