Lassleys Books Quotes & Sayings

Destroy the
fear in you
before the
fear destroys
the life
before you. — Robert M. Drake

And I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury. — Laurie Viera Rigler

For history is made with tools, not with ideas; and everything is changed by economic conditions - art, philosophy, love, virtue - truth itself! — Joseph Conrad

This book is dedicated to you, who taught me how profoundly one human being can love another. — Danny Wedding

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. — Haruki Murakami

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know. — Sarah Vowell

Designed or planned social order is necessarily schematic; it always ignores essential features of any real, functioning social order. This truth is best illustrated in a work-to-rule strike, which turns on the fact that any production process depends on a host of informal practices and improvisations that could never be codified. By merely following the rules meticiously, the workforce can virtually halt production. In the same fashion, the simplified rules animating plans for, say, a city, a village or a collective farm were inadequate as a set of instructions for creating a functional social order, The formal scheme was parasitic on informal processes that, alone, it could not create or maintain. — James C. Scott

But there were things he had to do. Dark places he needed to visit. Battles that — Anonymous

Artists are not helper monkeys; they're not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collaborative medium. From here on in, it's also the artist's story, and if you're working with an illustrator who's any good at all, you as a writer have to tamp down any control-freak tendencies you suffer under and relax into the process. — Mark Waid

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them. — Gary Cohn

No one gets a break from their reality. — Mathew St. Patrick