Belterra Quotes & Sayings

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation. — Soren Kierkegaard

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. — Jerry Pournelle

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it. — Gio Gonzalez

I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters, I have both the personal and the political. And their relationship is about ardor. It's about fun. And it's also about politics. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

A plague of snow, fluffy and dry before it hardens and grips the trees, the walls, and the cars parked haphazardly everywhere. When I walk to the little market a few blocks away, it feels like a test of endurance. — Henri Cole

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance, — Greg Grandin

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription. — Malcolm Potts

Did you save any?" Royce asked.
"Any what?"
"Of those eggs. If you did, we could cook them for breakfast in the morning."
Hadrian lay silent for a moment confused; then it hit him and he almost laughed. — Michael J. Sullivan

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion
a form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new. — Mick Jagger

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jesus of Nazareth told us to say these twelve words when we prayed: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.'
... And for those words alone, he deserves to be called ;the Prince of Peace. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support. — Robert W. Floyd

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly. — Stephen Chbosky