Oldfogeyism Quotes & Sayings

There are also dozens and dozens of success stories; many couples have emailed me with their original posts. I love reading these stories, but confess I am not as interested in drawing them as the unfinished, elusive ones. — Sophie Blackall

I was the climber of a sheer cliff, dragging myself on bleeding hands towards a summit that I'd never reach and sometimes didn't want to reach. The things I cared about were the hooks I'd driven into the rock face. Depression snapped them, one by one, one by one. My only certainty was the fall. — Alexis Hall

Some men die for lack of love ... some die because of it. Think about it. - Daemon — Anne Bishop

Give something that wasn't expected. — John Madden

At 60, even one's thoughts have wrinkles. — Marty Rubin

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy ... the diary is pretty full. — Evelyn Glennie

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers. — Isaac Asimov

Homophobia is easier for black people where black people are concerned. They feel they have the right to correct me on my behavior. There is this notion that homosexuality is something that white people do. — David McAlmont

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure. — Robin Sieger

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. — Jacques Barzun

In fact, it wouldn't hurt if you just spent the next few days inside. You can lock yourself in your room like Isabelle."
"I'm not gonna do that."
"Of course your not," said Jace, "because you live to torture me, don't you?"
"Not everything, Jace, is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you have to admit that the majority of things are."
Clary resisted the urge to scream. — Cassandra Clare

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it. — Tim Berners-Lee