A Shaw Series Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence. — Roland Barthes

The last guest lecturer to honor the students with her presence had been Isabelle Lightwood. And the 'lecture' had consisted of a stern and humiliating warning that every female in a ten-mile radius should keep her grubby littler hands off Simon's hot bod.
Fortunately, the tall, dark-haired man who strode to the front of the classroom looked unlikely to have any interest in Simon or his bod. — Cassandra Clare

What is life but a series of inspired follies ... — George Bernard Shaw

Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., — Louis L'Amour

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. — William Gilbert

She talked to herself as she wrote. "Dark hair, about six four five, two-forty. Shoulders the size of Nebraska. Amazing blue eyes." She put down her pen. Amazing blue eyes?Where did that come from? — David Baldacci

I think trying to write is a religious exercise. You are trying to understand life, and you can only get the illusion of doing it fully by writing. That is, it's the only way I can come to understand things fully. When I create, when I put my own mark on something and form it, I begin to know the whole truth about it, how it was put together. Then you can begin to change things around. You know all this after you have written a lot. You really know. And it has become the most important thing in your life. It has nothing to do with craft, or even art, in a way. It is making sense of life. It is coming to understand yourself. — Peter Taylor

Let the perfectionist play postal. — Yasser Seirawan

No scientific proof can make someone stop hating something if their hatred gives them pleasure. — Paul Doiron

If you think affordable DNA sequencers were a scare, or those cloning kits that made the rounds, imagine kids programming nanos in their basements, sharing their designs on the web. It would be worse than when they started printing those plastic guns in those cheap extruder kits. Who knows what they might try and target just for fun? It starts with the neighbor's cat. The next weekend, someone wipes out an entire species by accident. — Hugh Howey

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. — Lewis Thomas

It has been said that life's winners don't always have the best of everything but they make the best of everything they have. — Hazel McCallion

Readers are smart and they know how to read more than just a book; they know how to read their authors. — Suzanne Steele