Murnane Brandt Quotes & Sayings

Quantity impresses, and anyone can appreciate it at first sight. Quality isn't as obvious, or as easy to appreciate. As if that weren't enough, quantity is easier to produce, less labor-intensive, cheaper, less risky than saying: Not this. — Gabriel Zaid

Her assignment had been to write a simple Sumerian code for preserving a jar of pickled eggs. (To the programming-inclined reader, this is the magical equivalent of "HELLO WORLD.") — Sorin Suciu

Why is it we always have the best one-liners for times when they are not needed, but never for when they are? — Marie F. Crow

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. — Gilbert White

The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. — Thomas De Quincey

There is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody — Zadie Smith

Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world. — James P. Krehbiel

French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality. — Mireille Guiliano

I had that hole in me. that empty space ... she put it in me, you filled it ... she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke — J.D. Robb