Max Beckman Quotes & Sayings

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau

Well, I tell myself, it could be worse. You could have been rescued by some fifty-year-old perv sporting a spare tire the size of a monster truck's who keeps his dead mother in the attic. — Rick Yancey

I am here, Bella. Let me cherish you as you deserve.
- Sebastian Stanhope — Diana Quincy

It's crazy because people expect you to be funny all the time and every day is not a funny day. I go to funerals and people are like 'tell a joke' and 'say one of your lines in a movie.' It's a funeral, man! — Chris Tucker

He had used drugs and nanonic supplements to compensate at first, then supplements became replacements, with bones exchanged for carbon-fibre struts. Electrical consumption supplanted food intake. The final transition was his skin, replacing the eczema-ridden epidermis with a smooth ochre silicon membrane. Warlow didn't need a spacesuit to work in the vacuum, he could survive for over three weeks without a power and oxygen recharge. His facial features had become purely cosmetic, a crude mannequin-like caricature of human physiognomy, although there was an inlet valve at the back of his throat for fluid intake. There was no hair, and he certainly didn't bother with clothes. Sex was something he lost in his fifties. — Peter F. Hamilton

Emptiness is like air. It floats around unseen but you know it's there. — PureDragonWolf

That's stupid, that's bias.. they lied, they don't wanna gift credit for anything — Michael J. Jackson

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows. — Akiva Goldsman

The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it. — Dorothea Benton Frank

No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT — David McCullough

Circumstances. He remembers his goal, but he uses it to filter and not to inform. — Anonymous

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder — John B. S. Haldane

I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn't sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast. — Matt Czuchry

Gray hair is the glory of a long life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. — Max Beckmann