Buell Quotes & Sayings

The virtue of silence is highly commendable, and will contribute greatly to your ease and prosperity. The best proof of wisdom is to talk little, but to hear much. . . . - SAMUEL & SARAH ADAMS, THE COMPLETE SERVANT, 1825 — Julie Klassen

How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way? — Ryan Buell

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz. — T-Bone Walker

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler

If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail against the guts of a dead cat is something I shall never understand. — W. Somerset Maugham

I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear sounds. Just crazy things. — Ryan Buell

I have seen your heart, and it is mine. — J.K. Rowling

Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter. — R.L. Stine

If it's really education you want for Nathan,' Buell said, 'have him read the papers, so he'll know what's going on in the world, and why. Teach him to be interested in everything he doesn't understand - interested enough to find out about it from books or people that aren't afraid to tell the truth. — Kenneth Roberts

My arithmetic is fine, thank you, Nicole snapped. Her arithmetic from what she'd seen was a damn sight better than that of any local without a counting board in front of him. The Romans, naturally enough, used and thought in terms of Roman numerals, and Roman numerals were to arithmetic what cruel and unusual punishment was to jurisprudence. — Judith Tarr

Is there a God? Is there an afterlife? ... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there. — Ryan Buell

Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage. — Malcolm X

A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems — William Buell Sprague

If someone says there's a portal to hell under some rocks, you bet your ass I'm going to move them. — Ryan Buell

So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people. — Ryan Buell

Sometimes reality didn't come with a happily ever after. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone. — Frederick Buell

In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from. — John Hawkes

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me. — Steve Earle

They're just memories now," Chase Buell said sadly. "Time to write them off. — Jeffrey Eugenides