Messiaen Catalogue Quotes & Sayings

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. — Carl Hiaasen

The term "leadership" connotes critical experience rather than routine practice. This is suggested in the following comment by Barnard: The overvaluation of the apparatus of communication and administration is opposed to leadership and the development of leaders. It opposes leadership whose function is to promote appropriate adjustment of ends and means to new environmental conditions, because it opposes change either of status in general or of established procedures and habitual routine. This overvaluation also discourages the development of leaders by retarding the progress of the abler men and by putting an excessive premium on routine qualities.[6] {37} — Philip Selznick

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable. — Daniel Clowes

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church. — Bill Lee

Life's a bitch and so am I. — Pete Townshend

It is a very simple matter," continued Colonel Bradford, "to live simply in this highly complex world. Let the world be complex but let your diet, and all matters pertaining to your mental and physical wellbeing be simple. — Carolinda Witt

She was in college, a time of optimistic fascism when it seems that all the world needs is one more rally. — Victor LaValle