Florentine Codex Quotes

#1. I marked the extraordinary lightness of the thing. It was necessary; the weight of an ordinary bone would never have allowed something so large as a dragon to fly.

Marie Brennan

#2. Give yourself permission to Risk. It is only in risk that one finds success.

Todd Stocker

#3. The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Sometimes stupid is crime enough.

Lois Greiman

#5. Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. ... Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

Erik Naggum

#6. And he had no qualms whatsoever about prying into someone's private thoughts and experiences. And no guilt about hoarding his own.

Nora Roberts

#7. Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker