Leyon Steel Quotes & Sayings

The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow! — John Gaver

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise. — Steven Erikson

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together. — David Reuben

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape. — James Howell

All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven't been made yet. — Raegan Butcher

As soon as things get serious in front of the goal, I don't have any twitches ... It's probably because at that moment, my concentration on the game is stronger than the Tourette syndrome. — Tim Howard

The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was. — Wendy Ewald

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. — John Ruskin

I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem. — Edward Burtynsky

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think? — Joan Bauer

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility ... — Edmund Crispin

And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it." - Detective Sam Spade — Dashiell Hammett