Brent Hartinger Quotes

#1. I know that opposites attract, but who the hell wants to spend time with an opposite?

Brent Hartinger

#2. She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence.

Simon Wood

#3. People make mistakes. If there was no such thing as forgiveness, there wouldn't be any friendships left in the world.

Brent Hartinger

#4. I don't run anybody else's race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race.

Catherine Ndereba

#5. Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

John Dewey

#6. I got to third base. At baseball practice the following Monday, that is. As for what happened that night with Kevin at the stinky picnic gazebo, that's none of your damn business.

Brent Hartinger

#7. Min hadn't just played the "friend" card - she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist.

Brent Hartinger

#8. Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

Newt Gingrich

#9. even the ugliest place in the world can be wonderful if you're there with good friends - just like the most fabulous destination on earth is pretty boring when you're all alone.

Brent Hartinger

#10. In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.

Sarah Parcak

#11. To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

John Sladek

#12. But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.

Will Durant

#13. Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

Francis Atterbury

#14. That light is bright enough to light up a little speck of the night sky so a man can see it a ways away. That's what God expects us to do. We're to be lights in the dark, cold days that are this world. Like fireflies in December.

Jennifer Erin Valent

#15. Just because you can't understand me, doesn't mean I can't understand you

Brent Hartinger

#16. Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Frederic Chopin

#17. I had that feeling of just pure joy and I went out there and put it in my program.

Tara Lipinski

#18. Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#19. The fact is, there's a difference between being alone and being lonely; I may not of been completely alone in life, but I was definitely lonely.

Brent Hartinger