Sherri Bishop Quotes & Sayings

I almost laugh. My great act of heroism, the only important thing I have ever done, and they think I was working for the Erudite when I did it. — Veronica Roth

The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me? — Jeanette Winterson

I discovered our dear poet in my office, a simple clerk. — Bertolt Brecht

I have been given much, and so I want to give as much as I can. — Noah Munck

Focus on peace not on war.
Love, live, share and care. — Debasish Mridha

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. — Jim Rohn

My worry is that other advances in science may result in other means of
mass destruction, maybe more readily available even than nuclear weapons.
Genetic engineering is quite a possible area, because of these dreadful
developments that are taking place there. — Joseph Rotblat

For me, where genre ends and literature begins doesn't matter. What matters is whether a given novel hits me with high impact. If it does, it probably is fulfilling the purpose of fiction. It has drawn me into a story world, held me captive, taken me on a journey with characters like none I've ever met, revealed truths I've somehow always known and insights that rock my brain. It's filled me with awe, which is to say it's made me see the familiar in a wholly new way and made the unfamiliar a foundational part of me. It both entertains and matters. It both captures our age and becomes timelessly great. It does all that with the sturdy tools of story and the flair of narrative art. — Donald Maass

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. — Jonathan Swift

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results. — Jamais Cascio

For no amount of our screaming at the people in charge to change things can change them... the powers bent on waging war against the poor and the young and the "other" will only be moved to kinship when they observe it. — Father Greg Boyle