1792 Bourbon Quotes & Sayings

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work. — Sinclair Lewis

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does. — Roger Penrose

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are. — Elliot Perlman

I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put to bed something like a search for order, or any other element of your sensibility, however much you'd like to. — Garth Greenwell

Taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one. — Max D. Adams

It isn't the Universe that's following our logic, it's we that are constructed in accordance with the logic of the Universe. And that gives what I might call a definition of intelligent life: something that reflects the basic structure of the Universe. — Fred Hoyle

Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists.
"I'm Poseidon's son," I said.
"Curse that upstart! I was here first! — Rick Riordan

Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger ... — Erik Larson