Finkenstein Test Quotes & Sayings

But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I call it this because Jack Vance is the first author successfully and adroitly to have applied this rule in his The Dying Earth. The Jack Vance Rule is: (1) The wizard has to be able to do something unusual, or else he is not a wizard, (2) he cannot do everything, or else there is no drama; therefore (3) the story teller has to communicate to the reader whatever the dividing line is that separates what the wizard can do from what he cannot do, so that the reader can have a reasonable expectation of knowing what the wizard can and cannot do. — John C. Wright

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways. — Corrine Brown

I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center. — Flula Borg

Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don. — J. D. Souther

I liked to dwell on these shortcomings now. It wasn't only that I was wondering why they had ever annoyed me. I was hoping they would annoy me still, so that I could stop missing her. — Anne Tyler

Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one's midlife crisis, to the belief that existence consists of an eternal, upward spiral of achievement, dependent on will alone.
This comforting illusion may be shattered by some urgent irreversible experience ... None more potently confronts us with finiteness and contingency than the imminence of our own death. — Irvin D. Yalom

One does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them. — Albert Einstein

Aaah, 'at's be'er,' said Ron, with his mouth full of mashed potato. — J.K. Rowling