Craenenburg Quotes & Sayings

Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing. — James S.A. Corey

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse. — Zane Stumpo

Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority. — James A.C. Brown

Whosoever, therefore, asks any one to believe blindly, or drags people behind him by the controlling power of his superior will, does an injury to humanity, though he may not intend it. — Swami Vivekananda

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire. — Bear Bryant

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. — James Redfield

The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth. — John Ruskin

In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

LIFE is four letters so is FCUK, LOVE is four letter so is PAIN. — Santosh Kalwar

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does. — Billy Collins

About Parlabane, Brookmyre says:
To fully acknowledge the extent of the debt I owe Douglas Adams - as a reader and a writer - would very possibly crash this server, so I will merely cite one significant example. I am frequently asked who was the inspiration for my investigative journalist Jack Parlabane; whether he has some real-life antecedent or represents some indulgent alter-ego of mine. The truth is that Parlabane was entirely inspired by Ford Prefect: I always adored the idea of a character who cheerfully wanders into enormously dangerous situations and effortlessly makes them much worse. — Christopher Brookmyre

But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen