Life Quotes

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

Frank Herbert

It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

Jonathan Maberry

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point...

Frank Herbert

I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before. I actually woke up twice during the night, and laughed till the bed shook.

George Grossmith

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

Frank Herbert

We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.

Kelley Armstrong

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

Ian Fleming

The Grand Mistake in Education - To think that what's right for you is right for everyone. IT AIN'T. The Fly in this Ointment! via @youtube

Life

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Agatha Christie

Americans refused to see accidents as accidental. They did not comprehend they while tragedy always exacts a formidable price, it rarely incurs a debt.

Julia Glass

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

Gena Showalter

Life is precious, and in the grand song of the universe, life is short. There is much to be done.

Gloria Burgess

I've been trying to start a garage band for over a decade now, but father won't move his car.

Jarod Kintz

What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world?


Jarod Kintz

-I have this friend—you don’t know him—but—
 -Is his name Molloway?
 -No.
 -Oh. I don’t know anybody named Molloway, so that’s why I was asking.

Jarod Kintz

The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to do?" "To know thyself", he replied. "And the easiest?" "To give advice to others.

Robert Trivers

Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.

Cheryl A. Bachelder

Who leads the world in consumption? America! Who has more lawyers per capita? America! Who has the highest incarceration rate? America! What is the greatest country on earth? America!

Jarod Kintz

I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?

Jarod Kintz

I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands, but he didn’t even flush!

Jarod Kintz

All my best writing was written before 1982, and then a significant event happened to me: I was born.

Jarod Kintz