October Sky Famous Quotes & Sayings

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't — Jeff Smith

As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower. — Farshad Asl

Graham glanced up at the sky, which was pale and pocked with birds, the whole thing like a negative of yesterday's fireworks display. — Jennifer E. Smith

The overuse of prescription drugs provides a vacation from personal responsibility. — Bruce H. Lipton

We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not only safe but right and necessary. — Seth

You don't want the Simi to watch over the bitch-goddess, do you? 'Cause no offense, akri, that would just be wrong, and I love you, but that's more love than the Simi has for anything. Even Diamonique. (Simi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The writers I most enjoy reading, even in gritty, down-to-earth genres, have a touch of the poet in them; they can create original, evocative images and make words do things they hadn't known they could. Writing my first novel left me feeling that the most important quality for a writer is empathy, the ability to see the world through the eyes of someone from a vastly different background. Especially, to create engaging villains, you have to see how the world makes sense from their point of view, even if it's the polar opposite of yours. For me, a good villain is one who makes the reader ask, "If I had the same experience as this person, can I be absolutely sure I wouldn't have done the same things? — Charles Kowalski

You aren't being sent on a mission that you don't have the power to accomplish. You have to find that power inside you somewhere, and you have to refine it. You were made for this purpose... — Cynthia Hand

If thou wilt be mine, I shall make thee happier than God Himself in His paradise. The angels themselves will be jealous of thee. Tear off that funeral shroud in which thou about to wrap thyself. I am Beauty, I am Youth, I am Life. Come to me! Together we shall be Love. — Theophile Gautier

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out. — Jennifer Egan

Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within; war frowning from its battlements; poetry breathing throughout the fairy architecture of its halls. — Washington Irving

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle. — Tom Wolfe