Grampus Bug Quotes

#1. Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

Barry Eisler

#2. That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

Joe Flaherty

#3. The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.

David J. C. MacKay

#4. He feared, in his secret heart, that one day in company the baby would sit up and speak; that it would engage his eyes, appraise him, and say, 'You prick.

Hilary Mantel

#5. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence.
- Tybalt

Seanan McGuire

#6. I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.

Francisco Varela

#8. I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

Joan Collins

#9. Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Bill Gates

#10. Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

Edward Young

#11. If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

Jan C. Ting

#12. Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.

Neil Diamond

#13. No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

Timothy Keller

#14. I did not want Philip - that handsome, incorrigible, charming tease who stole hearts he had no intention of keeping.

Julianne Donaldson

#15. The break of a family is a break of society.

Lailah Gifty Akita