Balzano And Tropiano Quotes

#1. If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don't read big Tolkienesque fantasies - Tolkien didn't read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.

Neil Gaiman

#2. Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

Theocritus

#3. He knew me as one knows the seasons, knows the tide. Knew me like the smell of smoke, knew what I was, and what I wanted.

Hannah Kent

#4. A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Al Gore

#7. Perhaps everyone had their own way of preparing to die. Life got you ready.

Lorrie Moore

#8. It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Kate Horsley

#9. When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

Elizabeth Olsen

#10. Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed.

Hazel Felleman

#11. Christians must engage in "spiritual warfare" to combat same-sex marriage.

Michele Bachmann