Faethon Marathon Quotes & Sayings

Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition ... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world. — Clarence John Laughlin

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. — Abraham Maslow

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities. — Agnes Repplier

On the shelves along the wall my stacks. Jumbled and worn. Pagers curled and stained. Spines creased and cracked. — Lucas Klauss

Obviously dick was involved." "Hashtag dick. — Karina Halle

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave. — James Thurber

The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities. — Laurence Sterne

There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussion, co-operation or movement toward an intellectual Renaissance ... They are not axioms, but until a man has proved them to himself and has accepted them, he is not fit for an intellectual discussion. These two principles are: a. that emotions are not tools of cognition; b. that no man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others. — Ayn Rand

The sins we do, people behold with optics,
Which shew them ten times more than common vices,
And often multiply them. — John William Fletcher

My palms itched to have a close encounter of the bitch-slap kind with his face. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

When friends are in trouble, America Helps. — Barack Obama

Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life. — Steven Herrick

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts. — Linda Hunt