Abraxas The Wyvern Quotes & Sayings

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it. — John Scalzi

Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing ...
They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more. — Charlie Huston

How lovely she was in her raiments of silk and levantine purple; the fabric provocatively set off the sheen of her white shoulders, which glistened with the sweat of the world. I was on the verge of giving in to the dangerous enticements of her caresses when I realized that I recognized her from an earlier encounter, back at the dawn of time. — Gerard De Nerval

The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars to ignore or downplay aspects of Lincoln's beliefs with which they are uncomfortable. — Eric Foner

I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's. — Mickey Drexler

Albion was many times larger in every way than the tidily compacted Britain I had left behind. Judging from the distances traveled, Albion was immense; both the land and the world that contained it were far more expansive than anything I could have dreamed. — Stephen R. Lawhead

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)
— Jaclyn Moriarty

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury. — Greg Walden

I like the flowers, but know I would not go to such lengths, make such efforts, get myself dirty to produce them. — Margaret Atwood

Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think. — Craig Groeschel

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports. — Penn Jillette

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary. — David Ignatius

Good words cool more than cold water. — John Ray