Donald Davey Stott Quotes & Sayings

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others. — Emile M. Cioran

You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do. — Joan Severance

Middleness is the very enemy of the bold. — Charles Krauthammer

Whoever claimed honesty is the best policy, or even a good one, clearly had very limited experience with the real world. — Jeff Lindsay

He's dead, she reminded herself. He's hunting a vampire. This is not the stable, normal, ordinary guy you're looking for. — Sela Carsen

From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts of Rays whereof that Light consists, when by their several Refrangibilities they are separated from one another, do tinge Paper or any other white Body whereon they fall. For those Colours ... are unchangeable, and whenever all those Rays with those their Colours are mix'd again, they reproduce the same white Light as before. — Isaac Newton

We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible. — Hugh Shelton

I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great. — Kari Matchett

Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances. — Auliq Ice

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people. — Andrea Hirata

You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds. — Franz Kafka

[A]ll that mystical jabber about expecting the unexpected is just so much toffee. Expect the unexpected, Edie was told by a sour veteran sergeant in Burma, and the expected will walk up to you and blow your expectations out through the back of your head. Expect the expected, just don't forget the rest. — Nick Harkaway