Silvester Palms Quotes & Sayings

Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I know, to my cost, that appearing unfeeling is the price we sometimes pay for being able to speak at all. — Louise Doughty

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them. — Lynn G. Robbins

We have to become the people we always should have been. — Rose Tremain

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time. — Michael Chang

I want to be better."
"Then be better. Accept the fact that God didn't bring you this far only to abandon you. He isn't that kind of father. And you won't be either. — Sylvain Reynard

The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me. — David B. Coe

Freedom, freed of all external boundaries, are still confined within us--their sensitivity often causing bewilderment. — Mu Xin

When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction. — Brandon Sanderson

Delivering unique creativity is hardest of all, because not only do you have to have insight, but you also need to be passionate enough to risk the rejection that delivering a solution can bring. You must ship. — Seth Godin

That things like 'onor, and justice, and love are the most important things in the world and that it's up to each and every one of us to always try to be the best person we can possibly be. — C.S. Harris

Why is it that you guys are so conservative in your views, in the face of the almost complete lack of understanding of what is going on in your field?" I asked. The answer was as simple as it was surprising. "If we [cosmologists] don't accept some common picture of the universe, however unsupported by the facts, there would be nothing to bind us together as a scientific community. Since it is unlikely that any picture that we use will be falsified in our lifetime, one theory is as good as any other." The explanation was social, not scientific. — Per Bak