Denicolas Hours Quotes & Sayings

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — Ernesto Sabato

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. — Alfred The Great

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living. — Jeri Ryan

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up. — Mark Haddon

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men. — Phyllis Schlafly

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. — George Orwell

My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience. — Jennifer Egan

Being alive can kill you. It can make you completely irrational. — Sarah Bredeman

Why don't we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary. — David D. Friedman

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators. — Joseph Barbera

None of these facts, however strange or inexplicable, is as strange or inexplicable as the rules of the game of Brockian Ultra Cricket, as played in the higher dimensions. A full set of rules is so massively complicated that the only time they were all bound together in a single volume they underwent gravitational collapse and became a Black Hole. — Douglas Adams

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. — Rupert Murdoch

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities. — Giles Foden

I find that going to bed without my phone or an iPad makes me sleep better and helps me wake up without obsessing over emails. It makes my day better. — Jane Levy