Nowyouknow Quotes & Sayings

I do engineering, not religion. — Daniel J. Bernstein

There is only one autumn in a year, but in people's life, there are many autumns in one year! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught - though — Jo Walton

C. S. Lewis wrote, No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — Brene Brown

It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right. — William J.H. Boetcker

Winnie glowered at the young man. "Mr. Sharif, you don't understand the purpose of the stacks. You don't go into the stacks expecting the precise answer to your burning-question-of-the-moment. It doesn't work that way. In all the thousands of times that I've gone hunting in the stacks, I've seldom found exactly what I was looking for. You know what I did find? I found the books on close-by topics. I found answers to questions that I had never thought to ask. Those answers took me in new directions and were almost always more valuable than whatever I originally had in mind. — Verner Vinge

The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okay - more than good-looking. He's hot - like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic. — Richelle Mead

Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling porcupine," she crooned. "Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine. — Gregory Maguire