Book Of Brin Quotes & Sayings

You're lucky we didn't you attack on sight. — Andrea Cremer

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid,
and the trail has its own stern code. — Robert W. Service

With James Reese's vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only does The Dracula Dossier grip us with its fast paced hunt for history's most notorious killer, it also enchants us with sophisticated and lyrical recreations of its unique period and strong characters. A daring achievement. — Matthew Pearl

Suri had a wolf named Minna. They were the best of friends and roamed the forest together. She had tattoos, was always filthy, afraid of nothing, and could do magic. From the first time I met her, I wanted to be Suri ... I still do.
- THE BOOK OF BRIN — Michael J. Sullivan

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks. — Sergey Brin

That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.
The Book of Brin — Michael J. Sullivan

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated. — Emanuel Lasker

I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort. — Sergey Brin

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in. — Trip Hawkins

It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch - if the sun marked the end of the world and the chicken was an all-devouring demon.
- THE BOOK OF BRIN — Michael J. Sullivan

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything must change, everything must move forward. — Pat Benatar

And the boss isn't . . ." He waggled his hands back and forth. "Ya know, mean." I nodded. I did know. I could bitch and complain about Jean-Claude all I wanted, but compared to most Masters of the City, he was a pussycat. A big, dangerous, carnivorous pussycat, but still, it was an improvement. — Laurell K. Hamilton

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. — David Brin

Fourteen minutes later he had finished. He had presented the — Jo Nesbo

When the dead betray the living, the victims are memories.
The Book of Brin — Michael J. Sullivan

Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room. — Rick Smolan

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense - In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it. — Peter Cook

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights. — Noam Chomsky

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens. — David Brin

I believe in music and gin and joy and talking too much and human kindness. — Caitlin Moran

Canadian researchers found those with low self-esteem actually felt worse after repeating positive statements about themselves. They said phrases such as "I am a lovable person" only helped people with high self-esteem. The study appeared in the journal Psychological Science. ... They found that, paradoxically, those with low self-esteem were in a better mood when they were allowed to have negative thoughts than when they were asked to focus exclusively on affirmative thoughts. ... Repeating positive self-statements may benefit certain people, such as individuals with high self-esteem, but backfire for the very people who need them the most. — Augusten Burroughs

We might not want to share our food or our money, but we do want to share our judgement. We want others to think we have more fun.But we need meeting-places of the mind. A Kilimanjaro of spirit that we've all visited so we can say of other things: it's shorter, or taller, or the same height as Kilimanjaro. — Tibor Fischer

As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval. — Spike Lee