Grasset Sauvignon Quotes & Sayings

When I began to do a little public speaking, one of the questions I heard most often was, "What good is science fiction to Black people?" I was usually asked this by a Black person ...
What good is science fiction's thinking about the present, the future, and the past? What good is its tendency to warn or to consider alternative ways of thinking and doing? What good is its examination of the possible effects of science and technology, or social organization and political direction? At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what "everyone" is saying, doing, thinking
whoever "everyone" happens to be this year.
And what good is all this to Black people? — Octavia E. Butler

She looked at his face and saw a monk and a detective, both beautiful and bizarre. — Lawren Leo

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing. — Seth Godin

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing. — Sydney Biddle Barrows

The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul. — John Eldredge

While he was the sun that lit your world, you were the darkness that shadowed mine. — K.L. Kreig

There's no good idea that can't be improved on. — Michael Eisner

I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea. — Joel Surnow

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable — Benjamin Franklin

Or to lick along the smooth velvet lining of a woman's mouth with his tongue. — Stephen King

The Moodies is a responsibility to deliver the goods every night onstage and to do it sincerely; otherwise, it doesn't work. You've got the three guys left in the Moodies that really want to do it onstage, so I think we're truer to the old records now than we ever were. — Justin Hayward

The point is not to get hung up on being what you're supposed to be. If you can, it's good to do what pleases you. — Robert B. Parker

The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely, .. It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country. — Jose Contreras

Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows ...
But ... nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked. — Yevgeny Zamyatin