A Tinkered Stars Mystery Quotes & Sayings

The fact that you already have it all within you doesn't mean you shouldn't go to school, learn your craft, read books, or go to workshops. Just remember that all you're really doing is using other people and things to remind you of what you already know. And you don't have to wait until you know "enough" before you go for it and become successful. — Derek Rydall

Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny. — Mel Brooks

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty. — Jefferson Davis

One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness. — Russell Smith

No evil is completely destroyed nor are acts of goodness. — Dorothy Fuldheim

I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have to find our own way. — Attia Hosain

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it. — George Saunders

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience. — Marina Abramovic

Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life. — Naguib Mahfouz

[G]overnment endorsement ... of religion ... sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community. — Sandra Day O'Connor

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life. — Hermann Hesse