Cleland Quotes & Sayings

Your chances of getting hit by lighting go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say Storms suck!! — Johnny Carson

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it! — Avijeet Das

Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories. — Jane Cleland

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior. — Max Cleland

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm

Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition! — Julia Spencer-Fleming

I remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about. — Schoolboy Q

I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today! — Max Cleland

But we no more choose our passions than our features or complexion. — John Cleland

I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that. This is serious. — Max Cleland

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger. — Max Cleland

I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want. — Jane Cleland

I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel. — Nelson DeMille

I love Christmas! I'm not religious, but I love the trappings of the season. I love the decorations, and the music, and Santa, and the festive food, and the cinnamon- and vanilla-infused aromas. — Jane Cleland

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat. — Max Cleland

Iterative development, when accompanied with reasonable end-of-iteration reviews - product, technical, process, team - is also self-correcting. — Jim Highsmith

This is not to say that the point of the hard way is that we must be heroic. The attitude of "heroism" is based upon the assumption that we are bad, impure,
that we are not worthy, are not ready for spiritual understanding. We must reform ourselves, be different from what we are. For instance, if we are middle class Americans, we must give up our jobs or drop out of college, move out of our suburban homes, let our hair
grow, perhaps try drugs. If we are hippies, we must give up drugs, cut our hair short, throw away our torn jeans. We think that we are special, heroic, that we are turning away from temptation. We become vegetarians and we become this and that. There are so many things to become. We think our
path is spiritual because it is literally against the flow of what we used to be, but it is merely the way of false heroism, and the only one who is heroic in this way is ego. — Chogyam Trungpa

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. — Max Cleland

It takes all sorts to make a world," some are soldiers from the cradle, some merchants, some orators; nothing but a love of books was the gift given to me by the fairies. — Andrew Lang

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they care about better with each story. — Jane Cleland

If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler. — Richard P. Feynman

Diseases are the tax on pleasures. — John Ray

While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest. — Jane Cleland

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave. — Max Cleland

The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower. — Jane Cleland

Putin learned from reading the William King and David Cleland textbook in the 1980s and 1990s, planning for uncertainty is the most important element of strategy. — Clifford G. Gaddy

He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me. — John Cleland

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. — Atom Egoyan

I'm anything but fine. I feel like the sun has set and not risen for five days, Ana. I'm in perpetual night here. — E.L. James

No weapons designer or engineer would build something with such an arbitrary weakness," he said. "The Disrupter is more like something a videogame developer would come up with, to create a big challenge at the end of a level - a boss that requires a huge sacrifice to destroy. — Ernest Cline

I think we all make our own families, whether they're comprised of blood relations or friends. Some people are lucky and love their families. Others aren't. But whom we spend time with is always a choice. Including our pets. — Jane Cleland

If you are prone to eating too much and in a chaotic way, bone broth is your cure. It will literally feed your body with many nutrients while making you feel less hunger when you shouldn't crave food. — Greg Cleland

The capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them. — Anne Truitt

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are. — Max Cleland

The commission had to subpoena the F.A.A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full story. That is one of the tragedies. One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up. — Max Cleland

Cleland was the victim of his own downfall. — Alan Parry