Don Snyder Quotes

#1. Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

Maria V. Snyder

#2. You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

Gary Snyder

#3. People we love do disappoint us (...). We don't have to love them less for it. Maybe we have to love them more.

Carrie Snyder

#4. Because you don't live in a book. Nobody does, silly. Things never happen the way they would in a book. There isn't foreshadowing.

Laurel Snyder

#5. I don't know Sally Jenkins. I've met her once. I wouldn't know her in an elevator.

Daniel Snyder

#6. Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

Maria V. Snyder

#7. All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward was just the chance to work your ass off.

Don J. Snyder

#8. Everyone wants to marry and Irish girl, they have the most beautiful babies.

Don J. Snyder

#9. You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.

Maria V. Snyder

#10. What we do with our free time is none of your business. Now, why don't you shuffle off to Parffet. I saw him heading toward the latrines. He'll need you to wipe his ass soon. It's the one skill you're most suited for. - Ari, pg. 188.

Maria V. Snyder

#11. I understand that some fans want to express their feelings with signs, and they should do so, as long as they stay within the boundaries of good taste and don't block the view of other fans.

Daniel Snyder

#12. Problems don't always get fixed. Lots of the time things are boring or dumb for no good reason. Or even terrible. And you can't do anything about it. That's life.

Laurel Snyder

#13. I always remember the faces and names of my enemies. I don't want to forget to kill anyone.

Maria V. Snyder

#14. Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

Zack Snyder

#15. I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

Gary Snyder

#16. You look like hell,' he said to me in a low voice.
'Gee, Dax, don't coat it with honey. Tell me what you really think,' I said.

Maria V. Snyder

#17. Don't worry," I said. "These men are good. They're going to heal the world.

Maria V. Snyder

#18. I think certain friendships have seasons, when you're closer with people when you're not, and so you can always have a relationship to someone or a group of friends that you don't necessarily have to work so hard to facilitate or to like maintain.

Clayton Snyder

#19. When men see Han-shan
They all say he's crazy
And not much to look at -
Dressed in rags and hides.
They don't get what I say
And I don't talk their language.
All I can say to those I meet:
Try and make it to Cold Mountain.

Gary Snyder

#20. You're better off fighting hand to hand than wielding a weapon you don't know how to use. A skilled opponent would simply disarm you. Then your troubles would be doubled. Not only would you be under attack, but you'd have to counter your own weapon

Maria V. Snyder

#21. I don't really believe in that "you need to make them come to you" kind of thing. I'm like, I'll come to her and if she's cool I'll stick around, and if she's not, then I'll leave at any time.

Clayton Snyder

#22. When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again."
"Are you going to kiss the sand?" I asked.
"Don't be ridiculous."
"Now I'M the one being silly?"
"Yes.

Maria V. Snyder

#23. How touching," Janco said, pretending to wipe his eyes. "Get going, Yelena. I don't want you to see me cry." He faked a sniffle.
"I'm sure your ego can handle it," I said. "Or will you need to beat up some trainees to feel like a man again?

Maria V. Snyder

#24. But they fight in the name of the creator."
"I don't care if they fight in the name of broccoli. The goal remains the same.

Maria V. Snyder

#25. Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, "I don't think I would have made it past the audition,Yelena. I probably would have set my hair on fire by this point."
"What's a singed head for the sake of art?" I teased. He laughed.

Maria V. Snyder

#26. Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don J. Snyder

#27. You haven't really lived if you don't wonder how you've lived this long.

D. Clarence Snyder

#28. She put her hands on her hips and surveyed the area with a cocky smile on her face. The smirk spread when the traitor met my gaze.
"No hello for your old friend?" she asked me. "Don't be rude Baby Face."
"Go to hell, Wynn.

Maria V. Snyder

#29. Don't judge what you don't know.

Maria V. Snyder

#30. I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

Zack Snyder

#31. Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.

Maria V. Snyder

#32. Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.

Maria V. Snyder

#33. Know all the Questions, but not the Answers
Look for the Different, instead of the Same
Never Walk where there's room for Running
Don't do anything that can't be a Game

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#34. We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-"
"He isn't mine. My man has eyes that change color with the seasons.

Maria V. Snyder

#35. I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

Zack Snyder

#36. Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don't notice it, but, out of the blue, it'll flare to life.

Maria V. Snyder

#37. Don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.

Zack Snyder

#38. I don't know John Riggins. I mean, I've met him a few times, and I had dinner with him once.

Daniel Snyder

#39. I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind that actually, as Gary Snyder says, wants to take care of things. There's an elegant quality to the wild mind.

Anne Waldman

#40. You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

Gary Snyder

#41. Mr. Kerrick wants your hair one color so you don't stand out so much.
Mr. Kerrick could kiss my ass.

Maria V. Snyder

#42. I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help.'
'Why not?'
'My lady, you make your own luck.

Maria V. Snyder

#43. Don't worry. I'm only your escort tonight. I would offer to protect you from the drunken attentions of the other men, but I know all to well that you're quite capagble of holding your own. You're probably armed. Right?
Always.

Maria V. Snyder

#44. Yalena: Could you always open your door?
Kiki: Yes. Fence, too.
Yalena Why don't you?
Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints.

Maria V. Snyder

#45. Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic.

Gary Snyder

#46. Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.

Zack Snyder

#47. An idea that's BOLD is worthless until SOLD!

Don The Idea Guy Snyder

#48. He pulled back and I recognized the eagerness in his blue eyes. "Interesting problem, though. Could be a bit tricky."
"Free Leif and then you can play," I said.
He grinned.
"Promise?"
"If I don't get to them first."
"That's my girl.

Maria V. Snyder

#49. People call me old-fashioned. The younger guys on the force, they bust my chops because I don't speak their language. Harvey Bullock, dinosaur ... because, nope, I didn't see that show last night, where they prance around and belt out awful covers and vote each other into the damn ocean or whatnot.

Scott Snyder