Gottino West Quotes

#1. Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had become, also, a little pro-nuke.

Lorrie Moore

#2. However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye.

Raymond Chandler

#3. The duke understood the danger in having an important conversation too often in one's head before having it with the intended party.

Miranda Davis

#4. If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

Aldous Huxley

#5. You tweeted?" I question.

"Twitter, social networking, innit?"

"I know what Twitter is, Jimmy."

Jimmy smiles devilishly. This guy is bad news through and through. "Stay off Twitter, Sweet Lips, it's full of celebrity wannabe's and wanna-don't-be's.

Heidi McLaughlin

#6. Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

Thomas Sowell

#7. choices are based upon expected utility. And once you have had experience with particular restaurants, CDs, or movies, future choices will be based upon what you remember about these past experiences, in other words, on their remembered utility.

Barry Schwartz

#8. Creating the next level of results requires the next level of thinking.

Rory Vaden

#9. Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement

Ned Vizzini

#11. Oh, Tiny Pink Jenna," I half sobbed, half giggled. "I have never been so happy to see a vampire in my life."
She squeezed me tighter. "I've never been so happy to be squished by a demon!

Rachel Hawkins

#12. If you can't do it twice, you can't do it at all.

Orson Scott Card