1070 The Fan Quotes & Sayings

I take everything with a grain of salt. — Hope Solo

For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut O'Connor out, feeling almost ashamed that she had reached me first. And yet, even when I no longer read her, I missed her, and realized that though the rest of America might not mind, having endured it so long, I would never be satisfied with a segregated literature. I would have to read Zora Hurston and Flannery O'Connor, Nella Larsen and Carson McCullers, Jean Toomer and William Faulkner, before I could begin to feel well read at all. — Alice Walker

I dedicate this work to Vasily Arkhipov, the deputy commander of a Soviet nuclear submarine off the Cuban shore who said no to his comrades and may have saved the world. That was on October 27, 1962, around the time my father came home from his defense job and told me at the doorstep to our house that there was "only a twenty-percent chance, son" the next day would never come. No terrorist action today remotely poses that kind of existential threat for our world, and I hope you'll keep that in mind in reading on. — Scott Atran

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. — Michael Moorcock

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. — Louis Pasteur

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff. — George Carlin

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher? — Zhuangzi

I think what you study and what you believe in has an influence in the way you live. — Mark Martin

It immediately flags companies that are focused only on raising and creating and thereby lifting their cost structure and often overengineering products and services - a common plight in many companies. — W.Chan Kim

A glance through the Bible quickly dispels the rumor that sibling problems are an invention of the twenty-first century. — Todd Cartmell

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president. — Ann Coulter

Success is a decision, not a gift. — Steve Backley

Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women. — Andrea Dworkin