Papped Urban Quotes & Sayings

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's — Erwin Chargaff

You can only write about what you don't know, and find out about it in the writing. — Jessamyn West

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition ... The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. — Philip Gerard

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men. — John Stuart Mill

Social psychology, the science of how people behave toward one another, is often a mishmash of interesting phenomena that are "explained" by giving them fancy names. Missing is the rich deductive structure of other sciences, in which a few deep principles can generate a wealth of subtle predictions - the kind of theory that scientists praise as "beautiful" or — Steven Pinker

The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If there might be space aliens, we can assume there are." "If the idea of Atlantis is not impossible, we can take it for granted." "If the traditional view of gospel authorship cannot be definitievely debunked, we can go right on assuming it's truth." No, you can't. — Robert M. Price

So just to clarify, I always have my vagina with me. It's like my American Express card. — Jenny Lawson

Whether at his desk or at the dinner table, when he talked about numbers, primes were most likely to make an appearance. At first, it was hard to see their appeal. They seemed so stubborn, resisting division by any number but one and themselves. Still, as we were swept up in the Professor's enthusiasm, we gradually came to understand his devotion, and the primes began to seem more real, as though we could reach out and touch them. — Yoko Ogawa

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations. — Rebecca West

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. — Dan Simmons

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, — Jodi Picoult

I'm sure at one point I will do some acting again, but it would have to be the right thing. I'm not going to do it just because people are offering it to me. Not for those box-office, bullshit, money, noncreative people. But I'll do it when it's right to do it. — Lenny Kravitz

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat. — Russell Crowe

The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy. — T. B. H. Stenhouse