Element Phosphorus Quotes & Sayings

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing. — Neil Gaiman

According to tradition, my great-grandfather married early, at 14, with a woman six years older. It was considered to be one of the duties of the wife to raise her husband. — Jung Chang

The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country ... Nations of dependent Indians, against their will, under color of law, are driven from their homes into the wilderness. You cannot explain it; you cannot reason it away ... Our friends will view this measure with sorrow, and our enemies alone with joy. And we ourselves, Sir, when the interests and passions of the day are past, shall look back upon it, I fear, with self-reproach, and a regret as bitter as unavailing. — Edward Everett

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story. — John L'Heureux

People and stars are made of the same stuff. — Bill Nye

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews. — Bjork