Ibjjf 2021 Quotes & Sayings

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure. — C.S. Lewis

Good to have powerful friends. Even better to be a powerful friend, neh? — S.M. Stirling

I'm saying it's totally oblivious to how people feel. Take the ocean, for instance. You can love it, but it doesn't love you back. It will suck you under and steal your breath and beauty can make you cry, or that the sound of the tide coming in at night is the best lullaby you ever heard. — D. Anne Love

Some of them are working hard indeed."
"What are they doing?"
"My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious: "They are reading. — Robin Sloan

I never pretended to be a great actor. — Joel McCrea

Be fresh like a flower, be loving like water. — Debasish Mridha

In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed. A twanging noise like a wooden ruler being plucked over the edge of a desk, a dazzling refraction of light, and suddenly the stars have all been stretched out thin and it's gone. This was exactly like that, except that instead of a gleaming twelve-mile-long spaceship, it was an off-white twenty-year-old motor scooter. And you didn't have the special rainbow effects. And it probably wasn't going at more than two hundred miles an hour. And instead of a pulsing whine sliding up the octaves, it just went putputputputput ...
VROOOOSH.
But it was exactly like that anyway. — Neil Gaiman

Sometimes you just have to tell your fear to kiss your ass. — Junnita Jackson

The only moment that we can actually experience is the present moment, and this seems to be the one that we often do our best to avoid, usually through thoughts and emotions. As — Frank Lin

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange. — Robert Charles Wilson

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man. — Albert Einstein

talking into her phone. — Elly Griffiths

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. — Amy Chua