Mirzakhani Effect Quotes & Sayings

Petty laws breed great crimes. — Ouida

Never hate your enemy. That clouded judgment. — Steve Berry

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. — Elizabeth Bowen

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality. — Elizabeth McCracken

Love and hysteria are easily mistaken. — Galt Niederhoffer

I refuse to get any more scars from loving edges sharp enough to cut me. — Jessica Gadziala

... anything to avoid the uncomfortable nearness of strangers — David Arnold

You wanna be the next Tolkien? Don't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. TOLKIEN didn't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. He read books on finnish philology. You go and read outside your comfort zone, go and learn stuff. And then the most important thing, once you get any level of quality
get to the point where you wanna write, and you can write
is tell YOUR story. Don't tell a story anyone else can tell. Because you always start out with other people's voices ... There will always be people who are better or smarter than you. There are people who are better writers than me, who plot better than I do, but there is no one who can tell a Neil Gaiman story like I can. — Neil Gaiman

Twitter should ban my mother. — Frances Bean Cobain

The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.] — Juvenal

I drop his hand like a hot potato and scowl deeply. "You're such a vagina-tease. — Elle Kennedy

I can't altogether tell myself, Lillian. It's not wholly a matter of the calendar. It's the feeling that I've put a great deal behind me, where I can't go back to it again - and I don't really wish to go back. The way would be too long and too fatiguing. — Willa Cather

If they asked me, I would have to say no. I made up my mind to play for the United States some day and I'm sticking to it.
(on playing for Ghana) — Freddy Adu