Laurel Atherton Quotes & Sayings

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game. — Dennis Eckersley

Evolution is not humane, but we could be. — William Olkowski

A study led by the Harvard researcher Nicholas Christakis asked the doctors of almost five hundred terminally ill patients to estimate how long they thought their patient would survive, and then followed the patients. Sixty-three per cent of doctors overestimated survival time. Just seventeen per cent underestimated it. The average estimate was five hundred and thirty per cent too high. And, the better the doctors knew their patients, the more likely they were to err. — Atul Gawande

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. — Bob Dylan

It was becoming clear that I had not been hired to play music or to write it, which was OK with me, except at this moment of insight I didn't know exactly what I had been hired to do. — Michael Nesmith

To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it ... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was. — Ed Asner

Kim Jong Il, incidentally, has been made head of the party and of the army, but the office of the presidency is still 'eternally' held by his adored and departed dad, who died on July 8, 1994, at 82. (The Kim is dead. Long live the Kim.) This makes North Korea the only state in the world with a dead president. What would be the right term for this? A necrocracy? A thanatocracy? A mortocracy? A mausolocracy? Anyway, grimly appropriate for a morbid system so many of whose children have died with grass in their mouths. — Christopher Hitchens

I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies. Just revisiting and rewriting. For me, momentum is far more important than inspiration. — Pam Munoz Ryan

They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both. — C.J. Milbrandt