Acknowledgments Section Quotes & Sayings

Grief is a species of idleness. — Samuel Johnson

Knowing what we feel is the first step to knowing why we feel that way. If — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

smooth, some lean, some stout, and all of them had ample muscles — Liz Adams

When experts and the public disagree on their priorities, he says, Each side must respect the insights and intelligence of the other. — Daniel Kahneman

It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol. — Patricia A. Woertz

Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence. — Debasish Mridha

I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too happy it's within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me. Because their beautiful thinking ignores both history and human nature. Because they'd spoil my thing with their thing. Because I don't think any of them is wise enough to play God and create a human society. Look. I like privacy, I don't like crowds, I don't like noise, I don't like anarchy, I don't even like discussion all that much. I prefer study, which is very different from meditation-not better, different. I don't like children who are part of the wild life. So are polecats and rats and other sorts of hostile and untrained vermin. I want to make a distinction between civilization and the wild life. I want a society that will protect the wild life without confusing itself with it. — Wallace Stegner

As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated. — Marsha Blackburn

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people. — John Frusciante

Finally, thank you very much to Jeaniene Frost and Jill Myles. This book does have sex in it. Please don't hit me anymore."

~Ilona Andrews in the Acknowledgements section of Magic Bleeds — Ilona Andrews

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. — Claude Monet

I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the person who 'made her book possible' or 'enhanced every page with editorial wisdom and insight.' Could I be the Maxwell Perkins to some future Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe? — Bridie Clark

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin ... — Malcolm X