Selbie Quotes & Sayings

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance. — Nina Easton

I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I'd offended that I would not get credit for being a serious writer. I decided that it was because I wrote about technology, and most fine American writers know nothing about technology. I got classified as a science fiction writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady, New York. My first book, Player Piano, was about Schenectady. There are huge factories in Schenectady and nothing else. I and my associates were engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. And when I wrote about the General Electric Company and Schenectady, it seemed a fantasy of the future to critics who had never seen the place. — Kurt Vonnegut

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title. — Anthony Trollope

Because he loves only as man, not as human being, there is in his sexual feelings something narrow, seemingly wild, malicious, temporal, finite, which weakens his art and makes it equivocal and dubious. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The music had the ability to conjure images in my head and help me drown out the tension and noise I was trying to avoid at my house. — Duff McKagan

Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots. — Nicholas Culpeper

I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go. — C.S. Lewis

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new. — George Bernard Shaw

I like hoofing you about. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

With sociology one can do anything and call it work — Malcolm Bradbury