Jeff Noon Novel Quotes & Sayings

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind. — Hyman Rickover

I love to work with people and do what I love. — Martin Starr

They were expressions of who he was and what he'd become, and he couldn't do anything about any of it, apart from retrace his steps back and back and back, until he was fifteen or ten or three years old, and start again. — Nick Hornby

Your diary should be a nepenthe. — Joe Dunthorne

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. — Eric Hoffer

Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers. — Kelly Gallagher

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life. — John Sherman

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall. — James Vila Blake

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray. — William Hazlitt

The way is yours for the asking - the way is yours for the taking. The way is as it should be. — Karen Hackel

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist. — John Maynard Keynes

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls. — Owen Wister