Galactics Update Quotes & Sayings

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. — Brian Greene

Because way back before you were even born there was this girl you see. And I fell in love with her. It was something that I wanted-love-not because it was expected of me, but because I found it out my self-that happiness of wanting to be with that other person. — Marianne Wiggins

Jack turned to Cameron. Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by? — Julie James

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? — Jay Samit

He moves like a dancer. — Lisa McMann

All the heroes had crew cuts, platinum-blond wives and drove Corvettes. The media was devoted to this cult of innocence. — Rinker Buck

Eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition. — Evan D.G. Fraser

Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable. Was the final truth even simpler? That no act of faith was possible until you were rudely pushed out into the screaming middle of things like a newborn child skydiving chutelessly out of his mother's womb? — Stephen King

It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries. — Alain De Botton

I stood there. Still. Frozen. Looking at the most handsome man I'd ever seen in my life. The man I fell in love with when he was still mostly a boy. The man who raised two great kids against the odds. The man who kept the streets of my hometown safe. The only man outside my brother and father who even tried to take care of me, he did it in a way that was beautiful, precious, so I let him. The man who made me happy. The man who was happy being with me. — Kristen Ashley

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat. — William Moulton Marston

And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hands, staring down at his enemy's shell. — J.K. Rowling

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it. — John Berger

There's a difference between winning and losing and not trying at all. — Tim Huelskamp

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second. — Kevin Brockmeier