Balcells Group Quotes & Sayings

o In the decision to use the bomb the base line had shifted down during the moral slide from the blockade to the area bombing of Germany and to the fire-bombing of Japan. Predictably one member of Stimson's committee made the point that the 'number of people that would be killed by the bomb would not be greater in general magnitude than the number already killed in fire raids'. — Jonathan Glover

Do you like it? she asks. Universal bitch speak for I think it's hideous. — Stephanie Perkins

Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. — Steve Forbes

A four foot box, a foot for every year. — Seamus Heaney

Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming ... clouds of educated gnat-notes. — Frank Zappa

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You are the illusion. The person in the mirror is real. — Isaac Hooke

You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected? — T.A. Barron

I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand. — Gordon Wu

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting. — P. J. O'Rourke

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fascination with the truth. I'm not looking down my nose at it. — Ron Currie Jr.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer. — Iris Johansen

Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe science. I think it is possible to invert that idea, and to say that the wonders of real consciousness far surpass what conventional science admits can exist. — Michael Crichton