Zaprin Quotes & Sayings

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together. — Robertson Davies

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft. — Euginia Herlihy

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic. — Susan Blackmore

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. — Henry Louis Gates

Maybe it's our bodies' way of telling us we were meant to be. Or maybe I, like, cuddle raped him or something. — Lauren Barnholdt

A book coming out into the world can be a harsh, harsh time. And your feelings are on the line. Everything that publication is about is really not what your writing is about. Your writing is coming out of something else, and publication and being in the public are something else. And those of us who have published, in whatever way we're published, are very fortunate. — Lynne Tillman

Without contraries there is no progression. — William Blake

Want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to soil it. — Paul Gallico

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results. — Gary Ross

The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems — Sergei Korolev

But they fight in the name of the creator."
"I don't care if they fight in the name of broccoli. The goal remains the same. — Maria V. Snyder

Have you ever courted anyone, Cousin West?" Pandora asked. "Only if I was certain the lady was too intelligent ever to accept me. — Lisa Kleypas

The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform exceptionally well to recent neurobiological evidence on memory and that make it particularly suited to the current discourse. — Joaquin Fuster