Quotes & Sayings About Surviving Verbal Abuse

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot. — Baal Shem Tov

It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones. — Robert A. Metzger

At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design. — Jeffrey Zeldman

When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way. — Hod Lipson

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so? — William Gilmore Simms

You see, when someone says "it's impossible,' I have this very bad habit, I can't help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break. — Douglas Preston