Scribendi Reviews Quotes & Sayings

Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved. — Arthur C. Clarke

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout. — Joel Parkinson

Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie? — Rick Yancey

What is good for the Kingdom is good for us all. — Jen Hatmaker

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning. — Jack Dempsey

More data - such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street - can make you miss the big truck. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If absence makes the heart grow stronger, it also wounds in the process. — Claudette Melanson

Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life. — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes. — John Shelton Reed

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.' — James Buchan

I'm not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don't find anything attractive about it. I can't believe girls are into it. It blows my mind a little bit. — Pete Wentz

All the Amore siblings had The Sight in varying degrees, and its fickleness got us into trouble sometimes. — Suzanne Palmieri

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. — Chaim Potok