Turtledove Home Quotes & Sayings

He'd never played in Wrigley Field - the Cubs had still been out at old West Side Grounds when he came through as a catcher for the Cardinals before the First World War. But seeing the ballpark in ruins brought the reality of this war home to him like a kick in the teeth. Sometimes big things would do that, sometimes little ones; he remembered a doughboy breaking down and sobbing like a baby when he found some French kid's dolly with its head blown off. Muldoon's eyes slid over toward Wrigley for a moment. "Gonna be a long time before the Cubs win another pennant," he said, as good an epitaph as any for the park - and the city. — Harry Turtledove

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but if nobody's pefect why practice? — Green Day

The greatest thing about provable reality is that by definition reality is shared. Every argument is really an agreement - an agreement that there is a reality that can be shared, judged, and discussed. To argue over whether the speed of light is constant or Batman could beat up the Lone Ranger is to share the parameters. God is solipsistic; reality is shared. — Penn Jillette

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system. — Robert Baden-Powell

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. — Ishmael Reed

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own. — Terence McKenna