Backfills Quotes

#1. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.

Neal Stephenson

#2. But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

#3. Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

Carlos J. Cortes

#4. In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?

Lisa Randall

#5. If you're a true introvert, other people are basically energy vampires. You don't hate them; you just have to be strategic about when you expose yourself to them - like the sun.

Amy Schumer

#6. 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.

Tom Shales

#7. Eyelids lowered, bringing his eyelashes into relief against his skin. No eyebrows, but yes to eyelashes. Hair on his head but none on his chest or arms. In this form, did he still have hair in his private regions?

Danielle Monsch

#8. Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Dorothy Allison

#9. The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#10. If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

Biz Stone

#12. The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

Chris Hedges

#13. When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

Seth Godin

#14. Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

Agatha Christie

#15. Don't ever hit a person first, but if anybody ever puts their hands on you, you hit them right between the eyes.

Sonny Barger