Booted News Quotes & Sayings

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material. — Jayne Anne Phillips

'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'. — Meg Whitman

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act. — George Washington

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it — Gustave Flaubert

Brighid's eyes flashed with a blue flame, and I wondered if she had learned to do that just so she could compete with the Morrigan's red flashes. Maybe I should try to figure out how to make my eyes flash green so I could freak out the baristas at Starbucks. "No, you foolish mortal," I'd say as my eyes glowed, "I ordered a nonfat latte. — Kevin Hearne

If you cannot find a soul mate, at least find a foul mate — M.F. Moonzajer

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image. — Claire Danes

The US isn't a perfect model of the world, — Randall Munroe

In vain I warned other Arab leaders, those pleasure-seeking gluttons who only listen to the fawning and simpering of those who owe them favors. There was a full complement of them at Cairo, lined up like onions, spying on each other on the sly, half of them so conceited they could not stop behaving like constipated patriarchs, the other half too thick to be able to look serious. Arrivistes who thought they had really arrived, comic-opera presidents unable to shake off their country-bumpkin reflexes, petrodollar emirs looking like rabbits straight out of the magician's hat, sultans wrapped in their robes like ghosts, disgusted at the blathering eulogies the speakers were trotting out ad infinitum. Why were they there? They cared for nothing that did not concern their personal fortunes. Busy stuffing their pockets, they refused to look up to see how dizzyingly fast the world was changing or how tomorrow's storm clouds of hate were gathering on the horizon. — Yasmina Khadra

Her heartbeat began to pound faster. Thirteen's eyes were sweeping over her body. A slow, deliberate glance. "Can he - can he see through the mirror?" His gaze felt like a hot touch on her skin.
"Of course not" was Dr. Wyatt's instant response. The doc sounded annoyed with her.
Her shoulders relaxed.
Subject Thirteen smiled.
Damn. — Cynthia Eden

Do people in your world always want only one story-flavor at a time? Only one taste in their mouths? — Stephen King

To make it a perfect season,
love everyone without reason. — Debasish Mridha

A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air. — B.H. Liddell Hart

You cannot fail unless you quit. — Abraham Lincoln

But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort. — Shunryu Suzuki