Sign My Yearbook Quotes & Sayings

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work. — Sam Altman

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance. — Edmund Burke

I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger. — Christopher Buckley

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points. — Sean Connery

Probably the easiest and most efficient approach was to hate everybody. Where have you gone, Jackie Robinson? — Robert B. Parker

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination. — Paul David Tripp

I'll ruin you. If Alexander doesn't do it first. — Anne Zoelle

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way. — Norman Lock

Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her. — Dan Brown

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else. — Erwin Schrodinger

Do not grumble that bees sting;
rejoice that they make honey. — Matshona Dhliwayo

America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception. — James Ellroy

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations. — Ted Nugent

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. — Norman MacCaig

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. — Edward Abbey