Location 6262 Quotes & Sayings

Feeling disconnected from their peers, they were also internally disconnected from their own humanity. It seems clear that violent video games can promote derealization in a susceptible person. For disaffected adolescents who may have undetected and untreated dissociative symptoms, spending hours and hours playing these games in isolation can be dangerous. — Marlene Steinberg

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul. — Betsy Lerner

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors. — Mercedes Lackey

I get depressed with these fluffy dragons and noble elves. Elves were never noble. They were cruel bastards. And I dislike heroes. You can't trust the buggers. They always let you down. I don't believe in the natural nobility of kings, because a large percentage of them in our history have turned out to be power-crazed idiots. And I certainly don't believe in the wisdom of wizards. I've worked with their modern equivalents, and I know what I'm talking about. — Terry Pratchett

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society. — Pope Francis

A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego. — Criss Jami

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. — Jean M. Auel

Desire The Starting Point of All Achievement: the First Step Toward Riches — Napoleon Hill

To achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life. — Jan Struther

And I did say excuse me, with my butt. Apparently you don't speak rectum. — Ellen Hopkins

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. — Elizabeth McGovern

I loved having a dad who was smarter than the New York Times, and I loved how my cheek could feel the hairs on his chest through his T-shirt, and how he always smelled like shaving, even at the end of the day. Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I keep tellin' myself that it'll be fine.
You can't make everybody happy all of the time. — Colleen Hoover

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be,
Your character is what you really are — John Wooden