Straen Inc Quotes & Sayings

Spacemen die if they stay in one place. — Robert A. Heinlein

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris

He had been longing to get at these Frenchmen and to cut them down, their being so near seemed to him now so awful that he could not believe his eyes. "Who are they? What are they running for? Can it be to me? Can they be running to me? And what for? To kill me? Me, whom every one's so fond of?" He recalled his mother's love, the love of his family and his friends, and the enemy's intention of killing him seemed impossible. "But they may even kill me." For more than ten seconds he stood, not moving from the spot, nor grasping his position. The foremost Frenchman with the hook nose was getting so near that he could see the expression of his face. And the excited, alien countenance of the man, who was running so lightly and breathlessly towards him, with his bayonet lowered, terrified Rostov. He snatched up his pistol, and instead of firing with it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran to the bushes with all his might. — Leo Tolstoy

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. — Edward Weston

It's about more than us, now, can't you see? I love you, of course I do, but some things ... some things just have to be done. — Natasha Farrant

Working for your daed every day was like going to the dentist to get a root canal. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; — Thomas Hardy

The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism. — Paul A. Baran

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. — David Blaine

I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I'm her knight in shinning armor. — Simone Elkeles

If a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle

There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all. It is unlimited silence but not dead, it is alive with songs of its own, with dances of its own. — Rajneesh

When you're a teacher, some students burst out at you immediately, most emerge gradually, and a few don't want you to see them at all. — Elizabeth Stone