Degenstein Library Quotes & Sayings

People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight. — Ray Kurzweil

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading. — Jencarlos Canela

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings. — Winston S. Churchill

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say — Martin Luther

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think. — Marc Jacobs

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra! — John Taylor Gatto

Thus did Ada, Countess of Lovelace, help sow the seeds for a digital age that would blossom a hundred years later. — Walter Isaacson

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication. — L. Ron Hubbard

I don't believe in the idea of the strong woman; there is simply woman. — Melissa Thayer

Forgiveness can be the one thing that truly holds us back in our Christian walk. — Karen Kingsbury

I get tired of hearing some science-fiction fans saying that characterization isn't important in SF. In point of fact, I think it's probably more important in SF than in mainstream fiction. After all, if the author can't characterize humans well, he or she probably can't characterize aliens well either. — Robert J. Sawyer

As their song crescendoed I had the sudden conviction that the world, which I had considered the province of meaningless chances, a mad dance of atoms, was as orderly as the hexagons in the honeycombs I had just crushed into wax and that behind everything, from Helen's weaving to Circe's mountain to Scylla's death, was a subtle pattern, an order of the most compelling lucidity, but hidden from me, a code I could never crack. — Zachary Mason

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. — Robert A. Heinlein

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree. — Anne Ursu

Love is easily killed. Oh! how easily love is killed. — Oscar Wilde