Linz Quotes & Sayings

Romance novels can be broken down into two broad categories: historical romances, which utilize a wide variety of historical backdrops, and contemporary romances. The distinction is important because the temporal settings have a strong influence on plot lines and the type of fantasy that is found in the books. — Cathie Linz

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him. — Mark Twain

One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit. — Jimmy Carter

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite. — Alex D. Linz

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. — Phil Linz

You can't get rich sitting on the bench. — Phil Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun. — Alex D. Linz

I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How much good would that do? There's still thousands of people behind him. It's this huge thing. — Alex D. Linz

But in our camp, his story was everyone's story, a single tale of dispossession, of being stripped to the bones of one's humanity, of being dumped like rubbish into refugee camps unfit for rats. Of being left without rights, home, or nation while the world turned its back to watch or cheer the jubilation of the usurpers proclaiming a new state they called Israel. — Susan Abulhawa

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing. — David Selby

A miracle is a single mom who works two jobs to care for her kids and still helps them with their homework at night. A miracle is a child donating all the money in their piggy bank to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. That's where you'll find the hand and face of God. — Cathie Linz

Our star, and most stars, are made mostly of hydrogen, which is the number one element in the universe: 90% of all atomic nuclei are hydrogen, about 8% are helium, and the remaining 2% comprise all the other elements in the periodic table. All — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament. — Walter Dean Myers

No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway. — Cathie Linz

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. — Ovid

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket. — Cathie Linz

Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable. — Caragh M. O'Brien

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two. — Andy Warhol

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time. — Alex D. Linz

A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't. — Alex D. Linz

Being in love can be frightening,and sometimes its easier to fight it than it is to face it. — Cathie Linz

The pronunciation of both Sami and Portuguese languages is strikingly similar: the Portuguese evolved from folksy Latin while the Sami evolved from reindeers' howling. — Arto Paasilinna

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. — Karl Marx

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached. — Anatole Broyard

The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans. — Cathie Linz

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture. — Stephen Hunter

This is a place between, Susannah; a place where shadows are cancelled and time holds its breath. Then — Stephen King

Most literature on the subject of agile methodology... is written from the viewpoint of software developers and programmers, and tends to place its main emphasis on programming techniques and agile project management - testing is usually only mentioned in the guise of unit testing and its associated tools. ...However, unit tests alone are not sufficient and broader-based testing is critical to the success of agile development processes. — Tilo Linz

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike. — Alex D. Linz

Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
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what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return. — W. H. Auden

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that. — Sydney Pollack