Lxxviii In Numbers Quotes & Sayings

Do not covet your ideas. — Paul Arden

Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface. — John Steinbeck

If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war? — Maya Angelou

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. — Ryan Lilly

To see someone who does not see is the best way to be intensely aware of what he does not see. — Roland Barthes

Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop. — Michael Swanwick

I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English. — Gisele Bundchen