Will Dennison Quotes & Sayings

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. — George Dennison Prentice

The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here. — Robert Sheckley

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. — George Dennison Prentice

Thus the midday halt of Charnock - more's the pity! Grew a City. As the fungus sprouts chaotic from its bed, So it spread - Chance-directed, chance-erected, laid and built — Dennison Berwick

I try to stay away from the craft services table on set! That's probably why I am able to still get work in this business: I stay away from junk food. — Christian Slater

Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback. — Elon Musk

Mistakes when we are young is how we become wise when we are old. — Brad Dennison

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point. — George Dennison Prentice

The King's daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm. — Walter Traill Dennison

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. — George Dennison Prentice

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. — George Dennison Prentice

You have to take care of freedom. Can't be afraid of it, like Fromm said, like MacLeish said. Can't be too scared or too bold. Like a plant, you had to water it and weed it and keep it safe from frosts. And we lost it, somehow. We let the wrong ideas do the talking. We liked the easy short-term too much, and couldn't commit to the difficult long-term. We even stopped breeding, toward the end there, didn't we? Our birth rate went below replacement level. America was worth exploiting, but it wasn't worth leaving for anyone else, anyone who came after. Maybe evolution just shook its head and let us clear ourselves off the map. Mother Nature doesn't think much of life that isn't willing to replicate. — Algor X. Dennison

What happened to the first vampire who fell for the first mortal? She turned him into a sucker — Brian Meehl

Before I let myself question my loyalty to my people, I'm quitting music. I didn't do this to be by myself. — Fetty Wap

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine. — George Dennison Prentice

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. — George Dennison Prentice

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke

Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding the evidence overwhelmingly persuasive, the method beyond reproach, the results replicable, and the analyses sound. — George M. Dennison

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else. — George Dennison Prentice

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his. — George Dennison Prentice

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He moved like some ancient god of lore, presiding over a battlefield of miniature mortals who couldn't see him, but certainly felt his almighty hand. Except, if Dennison was a god, his specialty certainly wasn't war. — Brandon Sanderson

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. — George Dennison Prentice

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. — Daniel Kahneman

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left. — Britt Ekland

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him. — George Dennison Prentice