Galled Shaft Quotes

#1. You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

Tony Hillerman

#2. The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement.

Peter Lilley

#3. In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

Bode Miller

#4. I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Matt Groening

#5. No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade,

Beryl Markham

#6. Time is like a river," Coydog had told the boy. "It come up behind ya hard and just keep right on goin'. You couldn't stop it no more than you could fly away.

Walter Mosley

#7. When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

#8. I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

Rachelle Lefevre

#9. If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.

Andy Rooney