Laplaude Quotes & Sayings

In their infinite wisdom, the Admiralty approved Alek's medal for bravery in the air on the very same day the United States entered the war.
The timing seemed suspicious to Deryn, and of course the medal wasn't for anything useful, like shutting down Tesla's weapon to save the Leviathan. Instead Alek was to be decorated for blundering about on the ship's topside during a storm, and for his great skill in falling over and knocking himself silly. That was the Admiralty for you. — Scott Westerfeld

Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes. — Sara Sheridan

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion. — Thomas Brooks

You're right; you can't make someone be happy. But I don't see the harm in trying. — Richelle E. Goodrich

We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery ... it asks that we participate rather than plan. — Margaret J. Wheatley

A system based on exchanging products inevitably channels wealth to a few, and no governmental change will ever be able to correct that. It isn't a defect of the system, it's intrinsic to the — Daniel Quinn

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. — Sylvia Plath