Hordern Quotes & Sayings

Allowing anyone, even Mairelon, not only to come close to her, but to circle her waist with his arms brought back old fears, though she had to admit that the sensation was pleasurable on those rare occasions when she could relax enough to enjoy it. — Patricia C. Wrede

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge. — Masayoshi Son

The future is in our power. Let us, then, each morning, resolve to send the day into eternity in such a garb as we shall wish it to wear forever. And at night, let us reflect that one more day is irrevocably gone, indelibly marked. — Adoniram Judson

Learning is the art of ignoring. — Elias Canetti

In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say. — William E. Hordern

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. — Robin Morgan

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking ... — Gaius Iulius Caesar

Each runner's capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours. — Hal Higdon

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness ... The present-day would-be George Eliots take up their stories as if with a pair of tongs. They're embarrassed by them. If they could write novels without stories in them, they would. Sometimes they do. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. We all need stories, but children are more frank about it. — Philip Pullman

The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes. — Daniel M. Gilbert

We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?! — Chris Rock

. . . be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires. — William E. Hordern