Characterize People By Their Actions Quotes & Sayings

Did God get out of bed one morning and draw back the curtains (Reggie's imaginary God led a very domesticated life) and think, 'A drowning in a hotel swimming pool, I fancy. We haven't had that one in a while. — Kate Atkinson

You can appreciate the good things all around you, but the best part is imminent, just out of reach. Like ... perpetual anticipation. — Kirsten Hubbard

I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it. — Sarah Waters

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page. — Jason Robert Brown

The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on. — Ann Lewin-Benham

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better. — Yogi Berra

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling. — Julio Cortazar

We're fine now," Sanjrani said. "We'll be fine for three years. Maybe three and a half. Then the recycling systems stop being able to meet demand. We won't have infrastructure in place to fill the gaps. And then we'll starve. Not just Earth. Not just Mars. The Belt too. And once we start, we'll have no way to stop." "All right," Michio said. "How do we fix it?" "I don't know," Sanjrani said. — James S.A. Corey