Liutauras Balsys Quotes & Sayings

It was a long time ago , but people make mistakes when they think they can barry the past . It can simlpy flow to the surface . — Khaled Hosseini

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals. — Derek Bok

Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that — Koushun Takami

The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up. — Kazuo Ishiguro

My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad. — Rick Yancey

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces. — Octavia E. Butler

The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death. — Ed Wood

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens. — Sam Raimi

Now the purpose of her stories had changed. She spun them to discover their meaning. In the telling, she found, you reached a point where you could not go back, where - as the stories changed - it transformed you, too. — Ursula Hegi

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight. — John Green