Gireaux Quotes & Sayings

This time, the anger in her voice wasn't there, and the tears were beginning to overflow her lower lids, starting their slow tracks down her cheeks. She looked old, and tired, and like the woman I'd only ever seen in pictures taken before I was even born. She looked like someone who could have loved me. — Mira Grant

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God. — Paul Verhoeven

Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them. — Stephen Richards

Take her away; for she hath lived too long,
To fill the world with vicious qualities. — William Shakespeare

The body and dendrites of a nerve cell are specialized for the reception and integration of information which is conveyed as impulses that are fired from other nerve cells along their axons. — John Eccles

Never be paralyzed by your fears of a future that no one can foretell, even if predictions lead you to the seemingly obvious, and often disparaging, conclusions. That — R.A. Salvatore

Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine what your characters are going through. You've got to stay close. When you're in a story and dealing with people you're not certain of, or you've just come to meet because they've stepped into your story, it's very important to go slow and sit in their chair.'
As Carlson also says, you don't have to love the people or the characters you write about, but they should be at least as smart as you. Look beyond stereotypes. — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist. — Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us. — Lawrence Summers

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
[1880] — Max Beerbohm

Ah, Klaas! Dear Klaas reverted to compost many years ago. — David Mitchell