Sydnie Kohara Quotes & Sayings

Non-cooperative approaches, by contrast, almost always involve duplication of effort, since someone working independently must spend time and skills on problems that already have been encountered and overcome by someone else. A technical hitch, for example, is more likely to be solved quickly and imaginatively if scientists (including scientists from different countries) pool their talents rather than compete against one another. — Alfie Kohn

It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By the time you can see it, you are powerless or unable to resist it and it rolls you up and away. — Nicci French

Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me. — Maureen Johnson

The whole scene had a dreamlike quality, like a Chagall painting come to life. — Lev Grossman

The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up ... A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time ... Life is about experiencing opposites isn't it? — Laurel House

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened. — Sam Riley

In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Under the sink, I also found a tub of Vaseline so big that it could have only one possible use, which I didn't care to dwell on. — John Green

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. — James Gould Cozzens

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing. — Brian Greene

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence. — Bill Johnson