Laymond Billy Blanton Quotes & Sayings

He [Wallace] sent a quick note to his friend [Franzen] explaining his behavior. "the bold fact is that I'm a little afraid of you right now,"[ ... ] "all I can tell you is that I may have been that [a worthy opponent] for you a couple/ three years ago, and maybe 16 months or tow or 5 or 10 years hence, but right now I am a pathetic and very confused man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searing envious of you and Vollmann and Mark Leyner and even David Fuckward Leavitt and any young man who is right now producing pages with which he can live and even approving them off some base-clause of conviction about the entrprise's meaning and end that I consider suicide a reasonable- if not at this point a desirable- option with respect to the whole wretched problem. — D.T. Max

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm. — Jackson Browne

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. — Alicia Keys

In Italy there are about 60 million people and we know how
high is the percentage of morons on national soil. However, in
China there are about 1.4 billion people and in India almost 1.3
billion. Therefore I wonder then, if more or less all the world is
a small village, with how many morons should we have to come
to terms on the territory of this stupid planet. It's the same the
world over, or the world is the same wherever you go! — Carl William Brown

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear — George R R Martin

If you don't get a kick out of the job you are doing, you better kick it and look for another one. Love what you do or just don't do it.-RVM — R.v.m.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new. — Shigeru Miyamoto

I never wanted to end it ... Everything just fell apart. The happiest time of my life turned out to be in my moment of crisis. — Yuuki Obata

My mother died of ovarian cancer; I support organizations that raise awareness of this silent killer. Women's shelters - Jenesse Center in L.A. and the Primo Center in Chicago. Kovler Diabetes Center in Chicago. — Regina Taylor

RNA viruses are limited to small genomes because their mutation rates are so high, and their mutation rates are so high because they're limited to small genomes. In fact, there's a fancy name for that bind: Eigen's paradox. Manfred Eigen is a German chemist, a Nobel winner, who has studied the chemical reactions that yield self-organization of longer molecules, a process that might lead to life. His paradox describes a size limit for such self-replicating molecules, beyond which their mutation rate gives them too many errors and they cease to replicate. They die out. RNA — David Quammen

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent ... — Ludwig Van Beethoven