Periklis Proussaefs Quotes & Sayings

Nine days after Perreault first saw the woman in black, an Indonesian mother of four came out of her tent long enough to claim that the mermaid had risen, fully-formed, from the very center of the quake.
One of her boys, hearing this, said that he'd heard it was the other way around. — Peter Watts

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first. — Marcus Aurelius

More fingertips traced over my stomach, making everything down low wake right the hell up. Much more of this and the state of my panties would be a disgrace. — Anonymous

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. — Rita Mae Brown

They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat. — Bobby Fischer

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read. — Tracy Kidder

keep on keeping on — A.G. Street

Children always want to look behind mirrors. — Joseph Joubert

Yes, there was a trick to it. You inherited your life, or you invented it. You figured out what you wanted life to be and then somehow or other you made it that way. Then, miracle of miracles, you liked it! — Laurie Colwin

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes. — Albert Einstein

Man is the master of his choices, — Lailah Gifty Akita

The priest I didn't talk to at all, because I didn't want to have to hide his body afterward. — Richard K. Morgan

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright. — Larry Wall

Learn from the past,
log the lessons from the past, but
leave the past! — Elizabeth George