Yanney Foundation Quotes & Sayings

The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time. — John Connolly

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously. — Stephen Fry

No one wants to get hurt but without pain how can we win? — Debasish Mridha

But people will laugh at all sorts of things. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore. — Tobias Wolff

Author reports that a group of tortoises was given to the British by India's natives during the Seven Years War which ended in 1763. The last of those tortoises died in 2004 at the age of 255. — Patrick N. Allitt

America ... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. — Hunter S. Thompson

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand. — Sextus Propertius

When men's spirits are sinking every thing helps to sink them. — Matthew Henry

Even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. — Anonymous

So, you want to see the house?" he asked, standing up. "Sure. Any cool futuristic gizmos you can show me? Food replicators or a holodeck or something?" "Funny. It's not Star Trek. — Brenda Hiatt