Competitiors Quotes & Sayings

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine. — Lincoln Child

In 1997 I began working as an assistant professor at Caltech, and I realized that I didn't really know what I was doing. — Mike Brown

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one's emotional plane. — David Bowie

As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission — Mike Krzyzewski

I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters. — Kim Edwards

I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union. — Chellie Pingree

Intentional misinformation of the masses by corporate governments is causing large numbers of easily preventable deaths. — Steven Magee

Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system. — Thomas Paine

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too. — John Ruskin

The whole point of their spectacular, yet limited, attacks was to manipulate the media into fanning fear and sectarian violence through one-sided reporting, — Michael J. MacLeod

In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way. — Chuck Klosterman

impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman"). — David Graeber

Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies. — Suzy Kassem