Poetryquotes Quotes & Sayings

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved. — Dorothy Day

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none. — Josh Billings

We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. — Nathan Myhrvold

fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless. — Ken Liu

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat — George Bernard Shaw

This was because Benny Bianchi was always going to be a promise at the same time Benny Bianchi was the prize at the end of a crazy life. — Kristen Ashley

To believe is human to doubt is divine. — Peter Rollins

If they can worship a weird creature, which is even not existed; why I must not worship a beautiful one who is already here. — M.F. Moonzajer

The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance. — J. Michael Straczynski

A deeply felt novel ... The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life. — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start. — Catherine Asaro

There's some people in this room right now," Pavlicek said, "who gave twenty years or more to the Job, myself included. We've seen it all, handled it all, and when a young person dies we've all walked up the stairs, knocked on the doors, and delivered the news, between us, to an army of parents. We've caught them on their way to the floor, carried them into the bedroom or living room, then gone into their kitchens and brought them water - over the years, an ocean of water, glass by glass by glass. And so, after all that, we think we understand what it must feel like to be one of those parents, but we don't. We can't. I still can't. But I'm getting there. — Richard Price

I felt him on a different level. I shied away from saying a soul-deep level even though that's what I suspected. His energy charged mine. Kind of like a battery being plugged in. It was impossible not to feel his presence. — Cambria Hebert