Kerney Kuser Quotes & Sayings

She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow. — Stefan Zweig

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.
[The Instrumentalities of the Night: An Interview with Glen Cook, The SF Site, September 2005] — Glen Cook

They knew each other very well
so well that they could sit now in that soothing silence which is the very highest development of companionship. — Arthur Conan Doyle

No matter who you were in sixteenth-century Europe, you could be sure of two things: you would be lucky to reach fifty years of age, and you could expect a life of discomfort and pain. Old age tires the body by thirty-five, Erasmus lamented, but half the population did not live beyond the age of twenty. There were doctors and there was medicine, but there does not seem to have been a great deal of healing. Anyone who could afford to seek a doctor's aid did so eagerly, but the doctor was as likely to maim or kill as to cure. His potions were usually noxious and sometimes fatal - but they could not have been as terrible and traumatic as the contemporary surgical methods. The surgeon and the Inquisitor differed only in their motivation: otherwise, their batteries of knives, saws, and tongs for slicing, piercing, burning, and amputating were barely distinguishable. Without any anesthetic other than strong liquor, an operation was as bad as the torments of hell. — Philip Ball

And if the prodigious genius of Azarya Sheiner has never found the solution, then perhaps that is proof that no solution exists, that the most gifted among us is feeble in mind against the brutality of incomprehensibility that assutalts us from all sides. And so we try, as best we cn, to do justice to the tremendousness of our improbable existence. And so we live, as best we can, for ourselves, or who will live for us? And we live, as best we can, for others, otherwise what are we? — Rebecca Goldstein

Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level. — Mark Rutte

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors. — Simon Newcomb

I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline. — Jenny Meadows

'John Doe' is typically used in a warrant when the accused is known by an alias or by a physical description. — Bill Dedman