Rk Writes Quotes & Sayings

Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around. — Hank Ketcham

You gonna bang my walls, Simon?" I laughed.
"You have no idea," he promised. — Alice Clayton

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it. — C. G. Jung

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament. — Bob Brown

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening. — P.G. Wodehouse

We think of ourselves as creatures marked by a particular intelligence. But one of our finest features is the inability of our expectation to truly simulate the experience we are expecting. Our anticipation of joy is never the same as joy. Our anticipation of pain is never the same as pain. Our anticipation of challenge is in no way the same experience as the challenge itself. If we could feel the things we fear ahead of time, we would be traumatized. So instead we venture out thinking we know how things will feel, but knowing nothing of how things will really feel. — David Levithan

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see. — Dan Chaon

We must name the eminent and fascinating Prince N. - once the vanquisher of female hearts all over Europe. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination. — Arthur Conan Doyle

A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine. — John Berridge

No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. — Theodore Roosevelt

So she moved away from the carving of the mythical stag, instantly cold as she severed contact with the delightful heat living within the stone. Part of her could have sworn that ancient, strange power was sad to see her go. — Sarah J. Maas

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer. — Douglas Adams

We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to structure events for convenient accessibility. Consequently, we must exclude from our discussion as far as possible such misleading notions as "development" and "progress." — Jean Gebser