Lanny Frattare Quotes & Sayings

If one can travel through time, fate needn't be absolute. — Robert Appleton

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages. — Ted Nelson

Believe instead in love. It is my faith that love shaped the universe as you shape your clocks, delighting in creation. I believe that just as you wish to give me your clock in love, refusing payment, so God loves me and gave Himself for me. That is my faith. I cannot presume to force it upon you, I can only ask you in friendship to consider it. — Elizabeth Goudge

But how much more pleasant was the sensation of being a missile without provenance or target, caught up in a tumult of non-Newtonian motion. So pleasant that pleasant was not the word. — Samuel Beckett

Humor is an absurd answer to a reasonable question. — Mark Bell

He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside - why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?"
He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening - I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly. — Dodie Smith

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that. — James Marsden

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs. — Kim Hyesoon

A flower blooming in the desert has greater strength than a tree flourishing in a rain forest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I felt my shoulders ease at her admission. She was going to do what she had to do, and I was going to do what I had to do. And Ivy? Ivy was going to go insane. — Kim Harrison

Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes invasive nature of in-depth interviews that aren't just a quick list of ten questions? — Sarah Stillman

There is no more perfect stillness than the solitude in the heart of a snowstorm. — Diana Gabaldon

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith. — Helen Gahagan Douglas