Sportal Quotes & Sayings

It is a rare person who is naturally inclined to sit still for sixteen years in school, and then indefinitely at work, yet with the dismantling of high school shop programs — Matthew B. Crawford

The moral, as Mr. Drawlight explained it, was that if Mr. Norrell hoped to win friends for the cause of modern magic, he must insert a great many more French windows into his house. — Susanna Clarke

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it. — Maria Shriver

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. — Honore De Balzac

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes. — Tipper Gore

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will. — Albert Pike

We need readers," muttered Daniel Chard. "More readers. Fewer writers. — Robert Galbraith

Design your life. — Amy Chan

Sometimes, the only way to set things right is to do what is difficult. — Marie Lu

When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair. — O. Henry

There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season. — Matt Passmore

There is no definitive census of all the intelligent species in the universe. Not only are there perennial arguments about what qualifies as intelligence, but each moment and everywhere, civilizations rise and fall, much as the stars are born and die. Time devours all. Yet every species has its unique way of passing on its wisdom through the ages, its way of making thoughts visible, tangible, frozen for a moment like a bulwark against the irresistible tide of time. Everyone makes books. — Ken Liu

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must ... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes. — Marcel Proust

How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend. — George Eliot

Henry had a rare gift for sounding reasonable no matter what he was saying. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes