Zowell Quotes & Sayings

A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba. — Elie Abel

the Russian engineers had taped, strapped and sealed our docking module's hatch just a little too enthusiastically, with multiple layers. So we did the true space-age thing: we broke into Mir using a Swiss Army knife. Never leave the planet without one. As — Chris Hadfield

It's only advice. Ignore it if you want. — Sarah Dessen

That evening he plays with the children, cleans the hamster's cage with them, gets them into their pyjamas, and reads to them three times over, once together, then to Jake on his own, then to Naomi. It is at times like these that his life makes sense. How soothing it is, the scent of clean bedlinen and minty toothpaste breath, and his children's eagerness to hear the adventures of imaginary beings, and how touching, to watch the children's eyes grow heavy as they struggle to hang on to the priceless last minutes of their day, and finally fail. — Ian McEwan

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead. — Jeffrey Kluger

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do. — Polly Bergen

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting? — Cecily Von Ziegesar

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck. — Winston Churchill

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share — Barbara Corcoran

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original. — Aung San Suu Kyi

How many people saw Arnold's speech last night? I haven't seen that many Kennedys in one place since their last trial. — David Letterman

I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village. — Pankaj Mishra

If I said he really wants to see you, would you care a little bit?"
"No."
"You don't have anything you want to say to him?"
"I do, but I'm trying to be a better person and not use those words as much. — Deborah Nam-Krane

Anyone that coaches their son, you expect more out of your boy. I'm not talking about stats, but I expected him to be the hardest worker out there. — Paul Coffey

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps. — Paul Lockhart