86305 Quotes & Sayings

It is a rare goal that has only one path. — Carma Spence

Now the deer moved through snow, snow that blew sideways, frosting the perfectly upright walls of Detroit's dead and monumental heart, vast black tines of brick reaching up to vanish in the white sky.
They made a lot of nature shows there. — William Gibson

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot. — Scott Adsit

It wasn't that we didn't know history. Even if you only count the real world, we knew more history than most people. We'd been taught about cavemen and Normans and Tudors. We knew about Greeks and Romans. We knew masses of personal stories about World War II. We even knew quite a lot of family history. It just didn't connect to the landscape. And it was the landscape that formed us, that made us who we were as we grew in it, that affected everything. We thought we were living in a fantasy landscape when actually we were living in a science fictional one. In ignorance, we played our way through what the elves and giants had left us, taking the fairies' possession for ownership. I named the dramroads after places in The Lord of the Rings when I should have recognized that they were from The Chrysalids. — Jo Walton

Ingo was a fever, and so far she hadn't found the antidote. — Margaret Way

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is. — Francis Collins

A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins. — Conan O'Brien

The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty. — Rob Zerban

What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that. — Deborah Norville

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz. — Thelonious Monk

I swear there must be like some secret code. All mysterious ancient temples must have a minimum of at least seven thousand steps to the front door. — Julie Kagawa

It is always within my power to build a bridge. — Paulo Coelho

The less you take from the land, the less you owe in return. — Marlo Morgan

Fuss is the froth of business. — Thomas Hood