Cosmina Lemoine Quotes

#1. Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Dan Simmons

#2. Ever wonder if you've done the right thing?" I asked him finally.
"Frequently," he replied. "Legalities notwithstanding, to not wonder indicates a dangerous lack of awareness of the near-infinite array of choices presented by life. More tea?

Karen Lord

#3. As the philosopher Walter Benjamin put it: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism."24

Karen Armstrong

#4. It was hard to see anything good in myself.

Rick Riordan

#5. All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come.

Laurie Paige

#6. Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot. But try to get me off and they'd be wild with righteous indignation. Oh, how I hate them all!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. You don't have to be rich and famous to have adventures!

Edmond P. DeRousse

#8. People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

Lisa Marie Presley

#9. The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Edmund Burke

#10. We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. She spoke in the same quiet and unnerving way as she had in the war council, and with the same effect: Liraz spoke, and truth was born.

Laini Taylor

#12. For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

Brad Listi

#13. I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church

Ferdinand Magellan