Di Francescantonio Quotes & Sayings

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead. — Amanda Hocking

Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do. — Theodore Von Karman

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away — Nicholas Sparks

I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment of the more slowly moving branches of science would be out of place here. Rather with the pen of a journalist we must attempt to record a momentary phase of current thought, which may at any instant change with kaleidoscopic abruptness. — Gilbert N. Lewis

Your value should not be determined by how somebody else has treated you. — Joyce Meyer

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. — Bob Marley

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible. — John Stuart Mill

If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all! — James Longstreet

I realize I have stopped thinking about political divides, about freedom fighters or terrorists, about dictators and armies. I am thinking only of the fragility of civilization. The lives the refugees had were our lives: they owned corner shops and sold cars, they farmed or worked in factories or owned factories or sold insurance. None of them expected to be running for their lives, leaving everything they had because they had nothing to come back to, making smuggled border crossings, walking past the dismembered corpses of other people who had tried to make the crossing but had been caught or been betrayed. — Neil Gaiman

It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed. — Charles Darwin

Every adventure requires a compass, curiosity, a journey, a creative mind and someone willing to play. — Shannon L. Alder

I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die. — Richard Bach