Quakecon 2020 Quotes & Sayings

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking. — Timothy Keller

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent. — Anonymous

Quoyle remembered purple-brown seckle pears the size and shape of figs, his father taking the meat off with pecking bites, the smell of fruit in their house, litter of cores and peels in the ashtrays, the grape cluster skeletons, peach stones like hens' brains on the windowsill, the glove of banana peel on the car dashboard. In the sawdust on the basement workbench galaxies of seeds and pits, cherry stones, long white date pits like spaceships ... The hollowed grapefruit skullcaps, cracked globes of tangerine peel. — Annie Proulx

Ev'ry Voice and Sing" - words by James Weldon Johnson and music by J. Rosamond Johnson. Copyright by Edward B. Marks Music Corporation. Used by permission. — Maya Angelou

Where the heck is Nick?" she asks. Just hearing Abby say Nick's name makes Leah suck in her lips. "Feeling up a guitar somewhere?" I suggest. "Yeah," says Leah. "Most awkward way ever to get a splinter. — Becky Albertalli

When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner. — Stephen Richards

If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. — James Frey

Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives. — Jane Austen

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines ... I like to lead a very low profile. — Jessica Lowndes

Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful." — Lee Gutkind

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career. — Bonnie Langford

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire. — Peter Jackson

Serah. She was different now, with her flushed cheeks and heartbeat so strong he could hear it where he sat, but remnants of the angel still lingered in her body. Her essence was intact, calling out to him, somehow connecting with a part of his soul so strongly that he could almost feel her heart beating within his own chest. Probably — J.M. Darhower

We are in receipt of numerous communications concerning the Harper's Ferry affair, and the various topics connected with it ...
We must decline to publish them all,-simply because we see no possible good which they could accomplish. — Melanie Benjamin