George Scialabba Quotes

#1. You may feel like a voice in the wilderness, but it is your voice we are waiting to hear ... you are the determining factor.

Neale Donald Walsch

#2. The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.

George Scialabba

#3. Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well
the reason why everyone loves them
is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.

Meg Cabot

#4. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

Honus Wagner

#6. We need to always tell them how special they are and that they mean the world to us.

Prashant Jindal

#7. The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

George Scialabba

#8. Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance.

Jeanne C. Stein

#9. My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done tweaking a book until the production department has to rip it from my hands!

Kresley Cole

#10. Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

Lebbeus Woods

#11. Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it ... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.

Seth Godin

#12. Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

Will Rogers

#13. Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

George Scialabba

#14. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

George Scialabba

#15. All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

David Bowie

#16. I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Frederic Chopin

#17. When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

Paulo Coelho