Mcnelly Quotes & Sayings

Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down. — Stefan Molyneux

The arctic pavement turned into a whirlwind of viscous blood. The fiery shadows on the metropolitan walls blitzed him, avenging overachievers starved for vengeance. He fell into the abyss. His migraine made his head feel heavier than it was. Thoughts of her were coals for the old train engine inside his head. — Bruce Crown

I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea and not a person. If it is *good* sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably most important of all, it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification-ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader's mind so that the mind, like the author's, begins to create. Thus sf is creative and it
inspires creativity, which mainstream fiction by-and-large does not do. We who read sf (I am speaking as a reader now, not a writer) read it because we love to experience this chain-reaction of ideas being set off in our minds by something we read, something with a new idea in it; hence the very best since fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create and enjoy doing it: joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness. — Philip K. Dick

Finally, slowly, like a newly lighted oil lamp gathering kerosene up into its wick, Wally's face began to glow. He turned to Mack Fulton. "Mack, you know what's on my mind? — Clive Cussler

In a city of twenty million like New York, there might be one or two terrorists. Maybe ten of them at the outside. 10/20,000,000 = 0.00005 percent. One twenty-thousandth of a percent. That's pretty rare all right. Now, say you've got some software that can sift through all the bank records, or toll pass records, or public transit records, or phone call records in the city and catch terrorists 99 percent of the time. In a pool of twenty million people, a 99 percent accurate test will identify two hundred thousand people as being terrorists. But only ten of them are terrorists. To catch ten bad guys, you have to haul in and investigate two hundred thousand innocent people. — Cory Doctorow

There's always world enough and time. — Audrey Niffenegger

I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ. — Jimmy Carter

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower. — Kin Hubbard

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep. — Amos Bronson Alcott

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them. — Jeremy Corbyn

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too. — Rachel Grady

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. — John Ruskin

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process. — Jaggi Vasudev

Troy smiled down at her, and her heart jumped into her throat. The lights turned his skin colors. Red, green, blue. Glimpses of every shade of Troy, and they all looked good. The song ended, and the world seemed to stop, just her and Troy, standing in the middle of the floor. — Cindi Madsen

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. — Charles De Secondat

In the beginning, God placed a woman in a companion role with the priesthood. — Ezra Taft Benson