Elizabeth Lecompte Quotes

#1. That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else.

George Orwell

#2. The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Larry Niven

#3. I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up the courage to go in, and now we're hooked!

Alexa Vega

#4. The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

Molly Harper

#5. It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

Olivia Goldsmith

#6. The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to time we hear the opposite, then those are just trivial religious and poetical exaggerations and ridiculous rumors, which have nothing to do with the real circumstances of the simple dead.

Hassan Blasim

#7. I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

Quincy Jones

#8. There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#9. My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.

Lisi Harrison

#10. Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Charles M. Schwab

#11. It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

Tacitus

#12. I love the whirling of the dervishes.
I love the beauty of rare innocence.
You don't need no crystal ball,
Don't fall for a magic wand.
We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

Kate Bush