15853 Quotes & Sayings

The landscape is not a use, nor is the act of preserving it. — Jonathan Bailey

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

For me, where genre ends and literature begins doesn't matter. What matters is whether a given novel hits me with high impact. If it does, it probably is fulfilling the purpose of fiction. It has drawn me into a story world, held me captive, taken me on a journey with characters like none I've ever met, revealed truths I've somehow always known and insights that rock my brain. It's filled me with awe, which is to say it's made me see the familiar in a wholly new way and made the unfamiliar a foundational part of me. It both entertains and matters. It both captures our age and becomes timelessly great. It does all that with the sturdy tools of story and the flair of narrative art. — Donald Maass

Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying. — Chris Brogan

I bring the girl to a museum, try to show her a little culture, and she turns a Chihuly into a giant phallus. — Nicki Elson

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin