Mckendrick Silverado Quotes & Sayings

Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure. — Jandy Nelson

You have no idea. Lillith was defiant and obstinate. Adam was, well, he was a man. He thought with his dick. He asked God for a companion. It was his only request. God told him his wife would show herself to him. He misunderstood. He came upon Lillith bathing in the lake. — T.L. Brown

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it. — Patrick J. Adams

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books. — Hilda Solis

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. — Claude Shannon

Great music is better than it can be performed. — Artur Schnabel

Two must rule together, one for the night and one for the day. this is the way it has always been done. — Jennifer Silverwood

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. — Joseph Smith Jr.

To help the humanity, live with kindness and harmony. — Debasish Mridha

I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose. — Sven Birkerts

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? — Leonardo Da Vinci

To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it's a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed. — Beryl Markham

The Unknown is scary. I'll always have some fear about what's going to happen next. The thing is, the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you. — Susane Colasanti