Bloomsday Cafe Quotes

#1. It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

Richard D. James

#2. Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

Suzanne Finnamore

#3. Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Booker T. Washington

#4. My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

Bethenny Frankel

#5. ABREAST
He who aims
to keep abreast
is for ever
second best.

Piet Hein

#6. By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

Wallace Stegner

#7. If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

John C. Maxwell

#8. I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

Patty Duke

#9. I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing.

Allison Winn Scotch

#10. My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Taylor Caldwell