Habjan Betancourt Quotes & Sayings

Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. — John Gardner

The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded. If he is an artisan, he may seek to learn the methods and the tools of those most skillful in the same line. If he laboreth at the law or at healing, he may consult and exchange knowledge with others of his calling. — George S. Clason

To measure is to know. — Lord Kelvin

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target. — Naomie Harris

Man, I wish God wasn't starting to shake us up like this. Wouldn't it just be easier to care about stuff like dinnerware, golf, school uniforms, and getting to that new resturant that just opened? — Lisa Samson

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned. — Henry David Thoreau

All politicians find it hard to address with conviction more than one emergency at a time. — Max Hastings

Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation. — Patrick Dixon

There is a little bit of snobbery with casting, and unless you're a really successful comedian like Ruth Jones, you don't get to be in the drama side of things. — Rhys Thomas

Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover. — Lu Xun

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it. — Chris Wooding

She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything really interesting absorbed her so that she never knew what was going on about her. The little girls to whose houses she went visiting had found this out, and always hid away their story-books when she was expected to tea. If they didn't do this, she was sure to pick one up and plunge in, and then it was no use to call her, or tug at her dress, for she neither saw nor heard anything more, till it was time to go home. — Susan Coolidge