Preschel Nelson Quotes & Sayings

All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is. — Chuck Klosterman

If they look as though they're worried, we'll move in.'
'And do what exactly?' said Polly.
'Threaten to shoot them,' said Maladict firmly.
'And if they don't believe us?'
'Then we'll threaten to shoot them in a much louder voice,' said Maladict. 'Happy? And I hope to hell they've got some coffee! — Terry Pratchett

For it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs. — Aristotle.

I only wear suits to funerals and I only cash checks when the bank is about to take the house.
from surely he's dead by now — K.R. Albers

What I write about is not war but the courage of man. — Cornelius Ryan

This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives. — Jesse Ball

The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that because the church started correctly, she will continue so. She did not do so in the New Testament times; she has not done so since. Without being constantly reformed by the Word the church becomes something very different. — David Lloyd-Jones

There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain. — Daniel Craig

At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form. — Adyashanti

When you stand on the banks
of Penn Swamp Pond in August,
those injuries can save your life
and keep you picking till the bush is bare. — Charles Rafferty

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right? — Rafael Nadal

Think before you speak. Spend less than what you make. And whatever happens, try to make the best of what's going on. — Mike Leonard

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don't schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this. — Ray Bradbury