Thrane Thrane Quotes & Sayings

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.
[The Instrumentalities of the Night: An Interview with Glen Cook, The SF Site, September 2005] — Glen Cook

Talent is only the starting point. — Irving Berlin

Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world. — Ban Ki-moon

A life filled with challenge will never be boring. — Laurel McHargue

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface ... — Ron Rash

I am a producer who NEVER discusses her budgets, EVER, ever ever. — Lauren Shuler Donner

If there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me. — Jerry Fodor

I'm fighting here, with everything I've got. Fight for me too. — Sylvia Day

In the last month of the presidential campaign, I tuned in to conservative talk radio and listened as callers considered the unthinkable. One after another, they all threatened the same thing: "If McCain doesn't win, I'm leaving the country." "Oh, right," I'd say. "You're going to leave and go where? Right-wing Europe?" In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church. The doctor might be a woman who became a man and then became a woman again, all on taxpayers' dollars, but as long as she saves the stem cells, she'll have the nation's blessing. — David Sedaris

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. — Henry David Thoreau

Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time. — Sonia Sotomayor

Prayer really can change things. — Tyler Perry

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs. — Richard Stallman