Useem Quotes & Sayings

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture. — Peter Block

Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak. — Rachel Vincent

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre. — John D'Agata

Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect. — Charles Stross

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God. — Anne Rice

Pick your associates well, back them fully, empower them with both accountability and responsibility, and they will produce far more than you ever will achieve on your own. — Michael Useem

I suck thoughtfully on the word "temporary". It could be my time with him is as temporary as hair dye, or an adrenaline rush. I decide I'll take either one. — Tarryn Fisher

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. — David Duke

The engineers of the future will be poets. — Terence McKenna

You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period. — Dallas Willard

He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines. — Neal Shusterman

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money. — Dolly Parton

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering. — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher. — Seneca The Younger

The gun jammed on the last shot and the baby stood holding the crib rail, eyes wild, bawling. — Louise Erdrich