Feuerstein Murphy Quotes & Sayings

Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work. — Shane Snow

The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate. — Timothy Leary

ONE MORNING IN AUGUST 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child's fever, — Erik Larson

The smell of him when he was sleeping, the sound of his breathing -- that was home and everything I wanted at the end of the day. — Maggie Stiefvater

Monotonous and thankless as her job can be sometimes, she cheers at the thought of her coworkers - a dozen of them crammed into their little offices in the basement - all cleverly disguised as harmless geeks, all capable of saving the world if called upon. — Alexis M. Smith

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.) — Charles Stross

In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who's getting screwed. — Mark Frost

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else. — Vikram Seth

Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back. — Nikki Sixx

Those we love know us the best. They know all the right places to strike. — Ilona Andrews

The bookseller could not imagine what might be more practical than a book, — Nina George