Archard Equation Quotes & Sayings

I will not ask you where you have been tonight
I'll only say hello
and hope. — Rod McKuen

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last day of the week, when the rest of the world is having its relaxing Saturday off and coming to gloat over you as it acquires its Sunday-reading best seller, if you work in a library you begin just at noon to wish devoutly that you'd taken up scrubbing-by-the-day, or hack-driving, or porch-climbing or- anything on earth that gave you a weekly half-holiday! — Margaret Widdemer

Using words like "casual" and "hang out," and the time constraint, were all part of a strategy to make the visit a low-pressure event. It's a much better way to get someone to commit to time with a stranger than AFC-style dinner dating, which can be a painful, drawn-out affair that involves two people who may have nothing in common stuck together for an entire night of awkward conversation. — Neil Strauss

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob. — Robert Green Ingersoll

You are worthy because you were born. — Oprah Winfrey

Our love was a mistake from the start. A beautiful, life-rendering mistake. — Karina Halle

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. — Wilson Mizner

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece. — Lady Gaga

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

What about the world do you most love?
The fact that I'm not here by myself.
-from interview by Jeff Vandermeer in Clarkesworld magazine — Margo Lanagan

Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller' way in the background, but that these are real people to whom things are happening. It just happens to be a hell of an exciting story. — David Morrell

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people. — Imogen Cunningham

For me probably the best moment is before I get started in the morning. I get up and I ride my bike before I come into the studio, so there's a lot of peace and quiet right before the day starts and my assistants get here. — Jacob Hashimoto

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge. — John Young