Maggs And Allen Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to run in a Florida woods, where every square foot not occupied by trees is bristling with thigh-high palmetto spears and nets of entangling skunk vine, but I did my best, — Ransom Riggs

Apple controls the licensing. It's their trademark. — Scott Erickson

I am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of the classroom and the stifling reality beyond it, which I must do for survival and self-respect. I am a commuter between what I am now and what I was and would like to be and it is this commuting at lightning speed, at the oddest hours, that has done havoc to me. — F. Sionil Jose

To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life ... — D.E. Stevenson

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. — Abraham Lincoln

The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether - when you are limited to the school material and you get bored, you have a tendency to give up and do nothing or play hooky out of discouragement.
The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading. So the number of the pages absorbed could grow faster than otherwise. And you find gold, so to speak, effortlessly, just as in rational but undirected trial-and-error-based research. It is exactly like options, trial and error, not getting stuck, bifurcating when necessary but keeping a sense of broad freedom and opportunism.
Trial and error is freedom. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sumptuary laws, as they were known, laid down precisely, if preposterously, who could wear what. — Bill Bryson

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing. — Kim Gordon

I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms. — Mathias Malzieu

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant. — Terry Eagleton

Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou