Jackdaw Publications Quotes & Sayings

I will eat what I want and look as I please and laugh as loud as I like and use the wrong fork and lick my knife. — Marya Hornbacher

I ask you now, is any little thing like being damned eternally a satisfactory excuse for behaving like a complete rat? — Fritz Leiber

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. — Bill Gates

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant. — Daniel Kahneman

But while the color may sap appetite in the most literal sense, it feeds it in others. — Maggie Nelson

Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors. — James F. Bell, III

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse. — Hannah Arendt

I ask myself: Is he or she the main character in his or her life? What is her motive? Or is she a secondary character in her own tale? Is she in the process of editing herself out of her story, because her husband, her career, her children or her job are consuming her entire text?" Max Jordan's eyes widened. "I've got about thirty thousand stories — Nina George

I've had all the monstrosity I want. — Saul Bellow

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe. — John Rachel