Quotes of: Francis Keyword

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection ...***...is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Logan Pearsall Smith

As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on.

Lynne Truss

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

Len Wein

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

Len Wein

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Len Wein

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

Len Wein

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Mustafa Akyol

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

Mustafa Akyol

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

Michael Behe

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

Melvin Calvin

Market forces will one day crush the Federal Reserve. One day, the market forces will reverse.

Marc Faber

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

Martin Fleischmann

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

M. F. K. Fisher

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

Maggie Gallagher

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Maggie Gallagher

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Max Heindel

The hand is man's most valuable servant; its dexterity enables it to respond to his slightest bidding.

Max Heindel

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Michael Harrington

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

Marian Keyes

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

Marian Keyes

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

Marie Lu