Roulements A Billes Quotes & Sayings

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash. — William Faulkner

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside. — Tony Alessandra

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made. — Otto Von Bismarck

The batteries in his radio died and came back so often they could have had regular roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. — Nevada Barr

It's not a god he worships, it's the devil. — Peter F. Hamilton

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. — Prince Philip

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal. — Jean De La Bruyere

I think, however, the current fascination with the computer and its principal product, information, deserves a more critical response. This is because the computer does so ingeniously mimic human intelligence that it may significantly shake our confidence in the uses of the mind. And it is the mind that must think about all things, including the computer. — Theodore Roszak

Gather information. Seek weakness. Watch, wait, and do what you have to to stay alive! — Octavia E. Butler

Julian was used to pleading and sulks and protestations that someone hated you. He had four younger siblings. But there was a special artistry to Kit's glaring. He really meant it. — Cassandra Clare

Dude, he's got that mean, squinty Clint Eastwood stare that's scary as shit.[Bailey] — Lorelei James