Bouchercon Anthology Quotes & Sayings

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. — Brett Ratner

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle. — Black Elk

But you can't be a scientist if you're uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. This is very different from the way journalists portray us. So many articles begin, "Scientists now have to go back to the drawing board." It's as though we're sitting in our offices, feet up on our desks - masters of the universe - and suddenly say, "Oops, somebody discovered something!"
No. We're always at the drawing board. If you're not at the drawing board, you're not making discoveries. You're not a scientist; you're something else. The public, on the other hand, seems to demand conclusive explanations as they leap without hesitation from statements of abject ignorance to statements of absolute certainty. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies. — Ogden Nash

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas. — Alison Weir

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience. — Damon Lindelof

Apollo was god of poetry as well as archery, and I'd heard him recite in person. I'd almost rather get shot by an arrow — Rick Riordan

Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household. — Gustave Flaubert

How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future. — Sebastian Faulks

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape ... For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place. — Isabel Allende

Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits. — Chanakya

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food. — Idina Menzel

We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. — David McCullough