Sergent Major Quotes & Sayings

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game. — Howard Staunton

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? — Charles Stross

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. — Chuck Palahniuk

I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English. — Christian Bale

One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier

I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys. — Madeline Carroll

Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw. — Hal Roach

Peace of mind is better than all the riches of the world. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid. — Masa Takayama

God's Love is always working to help Soul find its way back home — Harold Klemp

It's a compassionate reaction that all testicles have for fellow testicles being whacked, kicked or ripped to shreds by footballs, martial arts students or dead palm frond stubs, respectively. — Bill Kasal