Wydell Strickland Quotes & Sayings

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame. — Hilary Liftin

Consider the problem, "How can I win the game of tick-tack-toe?" It is well known that I cannot, if I assume (in keeping with the conventions of game theory) that my opponent understands the game perfectly. Put another way, there is no "technical solution" to the problem. I can win only by giving a radical meaning to the word "win." I can hit my opponent over the head; or I can drug him; or I can falsify the records. Every way in which I "win" involves, in some sense, an abandonment of the game, as we intuitively understand it. (I can also, of course, openly abandon the game--refuse to play it. This is what most adults do.) — Garrett Hardin

I pat my mule's neck and find comfort in the silky tufts of her mane. Father told me not to brood when people judged me for my wrapper, not my filling, or I would spend my whole life in the steamer. — Stacey Lee

Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates. — Ernest Becker

It may be wise to have many associates, but unwise to assume they are your friends. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Never love a person who does not deserve that. You will respect people more, and you will hate people less. — M. T. Panchal

God, living people are irritating. — Kendare Blake

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution. — Vivien Leigh

Every time Wallander stepped into a strange apartment, he felt as though he were looking at the covers of a book he had just bought. The apartment, the furniture, the pictures on the walls, and the smells were the title. Now he had to start reading. — Henning Mankell

Don't read with your eyes. — Thomas C. Foster

You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance. — Robert Jordan