Nerfreak Quotes & Sayings

She did not look anything like a horned horse, as unicorns are often pictured, being smaller and cloven-hoofed, and possessing that oldest, wildest grace that horses have never had, that deer have only in a shy, thin imitation and goats in dancing mockery. — Peter S. Beagle

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand ... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.. that have taken hold. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you'll catch. Let a chapter rest for a day, you'll see ways to improve it. Let your completed book rest a month or more and you'll see stuff that's long or that you want to skip. Read it out loud to get rid of awkward phrases and listen to your critique partners if they are good. — Dan Alatorre

Thus, it is suggested, a deeper understanding of the conditions affecting the speed and ultimate extent of an innovation's diffusion is to be obtained only by explicitly analyzing the specific choice of technique problem
which its advent would have presented to objectively dissimilar members of the relevant (historical) population of potential adopters. — Deirdre N. McCloskey

I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know. — Judy Horacek

If you face a man's job, find a woman! — John F. Kennedy

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing. — Glen Mazzara

I'm not crying for you. I'm crying for me. Do you know how long it took me to find you? Do you know how many awful dates I've been on? I can't" - she is breathless now - "I can't join Match again. I just can't. — Gabrielle Zevin

Well Mandira, I hope not. You see, I started both their careers. And as far as i can remember, I started yours too. — Shahrukh Khan

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room. — Victoria Wood

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. — Rabindranath Tagore

It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
I always knew this altogether thunder
Was lost in our little lives — R.E.M Sweetness Follows

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated. — Denis Waitley

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race. — Andrew Carnegie

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted. — Al Pacino