Greyden Press Quotes & Sayings

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I've always had this idea that if you're going to try something, if you're going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it's riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter's soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I'm going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory? — Johan Bruyneel

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. — Louis Simpson

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep. — Idries Shah

I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away. — Ann Leckie

It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865. — Neal Shusterman

A Marine is never intimidated. — Tom Monaghan

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac. — Dennis Miller

reasons and two reasons only. One, because — Gary Coxe

The best writing is embarrassing; that's all there is to it. — A.D. Posey

If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most. — Celeste Ng

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up. — Nicole Holofcener

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints. — Gore Vidal

All being, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. Man or woman, vagabond or citizen, lover or thinker - no breath could both be in and out, none could be man and wife, free and yet orderly, knowing the urge of life and the joy of intellect. Always the one paid for the other, though each was equally precious and essential. — Hermann Hesse

It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes. — John Derbyshire