Kabak M Cver Quotes & Sayings

My goal is to sweep the reader away from his world and bring him along for the adventure. Learning something new shouldn't feel like work, nor should today's younger reader be underestimated. If done correctly, there is no need to "dumb down" the plot or simplify words. When someone tells me he thought The Serpent's Ring was easy to read, I know I succeeded in my storytelling. — H.B. Bolton

We always say, one day we will laugh at this. I always try to make sure that this one day is today ... — Jacob Aagaard

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves. — Dorothy Thompson

We come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world. — Pema Chodron

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. — William Godwin

I don't know? Maybe because we had sex. — Faith Sullivan

You know, without your cloak of burning rage, you almost look like a girl," he teases with a wink at me. — Kayla Krantz

This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have. — James Surowiecki

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing. — John Charles Polanyi

We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Only when we drink poison are we well. — Charles Baudelaire

He didn't miss them. He didn't miss any of his life, really, especially the last year. Time had simply been a bookmark. Something that held his place while he waited to finish the story. — Mary Lindsey

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go. — Robert W. Service

This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault. — Sam Huff

Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform — Ivan Brunetti