Karczewski Larry Quotes & Sayings

Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces. — Dean Koontz

The books [poetry collections] may not sell, but neither are they given away or thrown away. They tend, more than other books, to fall apart in their owners' hands. Not I suppose good news in a culture and economy built on obsolescence. But for a book to be loved this way and turned to this way for consolation and intense renewable excitement seems to me a marvel. — Louise Gluck

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. — Danny Boyle

What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world's stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectual's theories serves as proof of humanity's irrationality, not his own. Thus, the true believer retrenches rather than rethinks; he launches a war on the world, denying reality because it fails to conform to his theories. If intellectuals are not prepared to reconcile theory and practice, then why do they bother to venture outside the ivory tower or the coffeehouse? Why not stay in the world of abstractions and fantasy? — Daniel J. Flynn

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. — Michael Morpurgo

Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet. — Joe Haldeman

It's quite the family reunion we're having in here. — Cynthia Hand

I said we would be informal," said Agatha. "I did not say we would be eccentric. — Helen Simonson

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block. — Ricky Gervais

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity. — Antoine Lavoisier

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago. — Paolo Bacigalupi

So I shall just imagine myself for a fortnight or so at one side of the fireplace of a country cottage, with a sympathetic soul opposite me. And I shall go on talking, in a low voice while the sea sounds in the distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars. — Ford Madox Ford

To survivors of sexual abuse, for bullying your demons in any manner you choose, and for accepting only the definition of therapy that works for you. You have the right to remember. To voice it. To be pissed off about it. Above all, to be proud. You've outlasted your scars and can teach the lesson on heroism. — Pam Godwin

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps ... — Stanley Milgram

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition. — John D. Rockefeller