Ellahome Quotes & Sayings

I once heard a preacher say, "The reason we sometimes connect so quickly with a complete stranger is because the friendship is not of this life, but is the resumption of a friendship from another." I do not know if this is true, but sometimes it feels true. — Richard Paul Evans

Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous. — Anthony Browne

Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be? — Linda Lael Miller

I let her catch me.
I like it when she catches me.
But last summer, she stopped chasing. It sucks. — Nyrae Dawn

For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there. — Ernest Hemingway,

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses. — Bobby Seale

Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work. — Edward M. Lerner

Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India. — Stella Benson

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act. — Ogwo David Emenike

Mmm. Don't make me regret it, satyr. Now get going, Percy Jackson. I've bought you a few hours at most. — Rick Riordan

Appreciate youthful exuberance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband and servants but for the sake, first and foremost, of one's own convictions. — Michael Cunningham

I just want to do really good work. — Chaske Spencer