Swancy Howard Quotes & Sayings

But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I call it this because Jack Vance is the first author successfully and adroitly to have applied this rule in his The Dying Earth. The Jack Vance Rule is: (1) The wizard has to be able to do something unusual, or else he is not a wizard, (2) he cannot do everything, or else there is no drama; therefore (3) the story teller has to communicate to the reader whatever the dividing line is that separates what the wizard can do from what he cannot do, so that the reader can have a reasonable expectation of knowing what the wizard can and cannot do. — John C. Wright

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done? — Brad Pitt

A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive. — Noah Webster

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me. — Mahatma Gandhi

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't and plenty of them aren't in prison either. — Stephen King

Thank you so much for the rude know-it-all attitude while also having to look at your ridiculously colored hair and obnoxious facial and chest piercings. I am very fortunate to have just been schooled by someone who looks like they graduated from Care Bear Carnage University. — Heather Chapple

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. — Arthur Conan Doyle

You are already way more of an adult than you think you are. Truly. Be good, be decent, be responsible, be kind. And don't forget to send thank-you notes. — Kelly Williams Brown

He was a serial dater, and she was a serial killer. Justice brought them together. — Natalya Vorobyova