Techno Thriller Quotes & Sayings

Are Cops Now America's Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists? — William B. Scott

The techno-political thriller and the romance novel serve as antidotes to the imagination rather than stimulants to it. For this reason they make for ideal reading in airports and airplanes. They effectively shut down the imagination by doing all its work for it. They leave the spirit or the soul - and ambiguity, for that matter - out of the equation. By shutting down the imagination, genre novels perform a useful service to the anxious air traveler by reducing his or her ability to speculate. For the most part, people on airplanes, and here I include myself, would rather not use their speculative imaginations at all; one consequence of this situation is that great poetry is virtually unreadable during turbulence, when the snack cart has been put away and the seat belts fastened. Enough anxiety is associated with air travel without Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus making it worse. — Charles Baxter

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself. — Andrew Bird

It is better to be soft and kind than strong and rude. — Debasish Mridha

I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process. — Jared Leto

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. — Chuck Palahniuk

How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we are on and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along the way. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies. — Tran Duc Luong

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money! — Gary Vaynerchuk

You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding! — Eric Thomas

The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail. — Edward M. Lerner

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction. — Edward M. Lerner

On Lincoln: A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell

I want my Canada back! — Justin Trudeau

I do not sleep to dream
but dream to change the world — Martin Carter

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again. — Sojourner Truth

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. — Eric Cantona

To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting. — Malcolm Gladwell

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny. — Jeff W. Horton