Verex Decat Quotes & Sayings

You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them. — Martial

I have been rejected 120 times, probably because I didn't write the right book. — Pierce Brown

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead. — Phillip C. Schlechty

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated. — Arthur Conan Doyle

We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win. — Susan Polis Schutz

Thus weary of the world, away she hies,
And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid
Their mistress mounted through the empty skies
In her light chariot quickly is convey'd;
Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen
Means to immure herself and not be seen. — William Shakespeare

Failure is Impossible."--Susan B. Anthony in The Renegade Queen — Eva Flynn

Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger
reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous
thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind
amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its
forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life. — Loren Eiseley

You are on my side," she says.
"What side is that?" I ask.
"The winning side," she says, and smiles. "The team of the artists."
"Who are we playing?"
"The barbarians," she says. "We are always playing them. — Jenny Hubbard

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films. — Stanley Kubrick

I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before they could take someone else's friend away from them. — Ilona Andrews