Sabatelli Stamford Quotes & Sayings

McKinty is an exciting new talent. — Ed McBain

To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall. — William Winwood Reade

We read and read and read, and we forget and forget and forget. So why do we bother? Michel de Montaigne expressed the dilemma of extensive reading in the sixteenth century: "I leaf through books, I do not study them," he wrote. "What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's. It is only the material from which my judgment has profited, and the thoughts and ideas with which it has become imbued; the author, the place, the words, and other circumstances, I immediately forget. — Joshua Foer

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too. — Elizabeth Olsen

Danny worried his bottom lip. "I'm conflicted." "I have a gun," Quinn said, arching an eyebrow at him. Danny put a finger up. "I'm no longer conflicted. — Charlie Cochet

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination. — Doug Casey

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame. — Pietro Aretino

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to. — Dee Brown

There are few things so tender as a man's dignity. — Robin Hobb

I ain't sleepin'. I got too much to puzzle with. — John Steinbeck

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word. — Ashwin Sanghi