Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar Quotes & Sayings

Smash market vs. mass market: Indie authors delve deep into expressive vertical genres. Book stores hold 90-day-credit-return literature. Why wait? In five years, Indie authors will be both. — Peter Prasad

But the noise!" she said. "The noise!" "The sign of a successful party. — Virginia Woolf

When we are in control of everything and we have great panels of push buttons whereby the slightest touch fulfills every wish, what will we want then? We will eventually want to arrange to have a special, red button marked "surprise" built into the panel. Touch that button and what happens? We will suddenly disappear from our normal consciousness and find ourselves in a situation very much like the one we are now in, where we feel ourselves to be a little bit out of control, subject to surprises, and subject to the whims of an unpredictable universe. — Alan W. Watts

Buffett and Munger joke that envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that isn't any fun. "Envy is crazy," remarks Munger. "It's 100 percent destructive. . . . If you get those things out of your life early, life works a lot better. — Guy Spier

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. — Igor Stravinsky

I figured the Nightingale Investigations job application form had the question Are you hot? Yes. No. If you answered no, please exit the building. — Kristen Ashley

I have grown up loving Shakespeare. — Ralph Fiennes

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. — Margot Lee Shetterly

There is no length to love; it's infinite. It lives in you always. Hold on to it. — Staci Hart

It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal. When I played, getting knocked down was an accepted part of the game. — Harmon Killebrew

That kind of devotion, that kind of sacrifice, came from a deeply selfless soul. It came from someone who loved hard and loved forever. — Dakota Cassidy

Finally, and most importantly, we must be concerned about the implications of multiverse theories for the future development of science itself. The multiverse theorists know that they are on weak ground regarding the Testability Principle, and rather than admit that their theories are not science, they argue instead that the rules of science must be adapted to accommodate this kind of metaphysical speculation. They want to change the very definition of science. This is a very slippery slope. — Jim Baggott

For man is that ageless creature who has the faculty of becoming of becoming many years younger in a few seconds, and who, surrounded by the walls of the time through which he has lived, floats within them as in a pool the surface-level of which is constantly changing so as to bring him within range now of one epoch, now of another. — Marcel Proust