Hookway Retort Quotes

#1. Anger is great. It's powerful, when you need something to hold you up. Something to steel your spine. But in the dark, when you're alone with the truth, anger can't survive. The only thing that can live in the dark with you is fear.

Rachel Vincent

#2. Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.

Greg Farshtey

#3. Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.

Mike Tomlin

#4. Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

Tyler Perry

#5. I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

Marc Newson

#6. No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but only the most fleeting glimpse into her soul." Gidas was a poet, or wanted to be.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#7. The thought of publishing - of the whole world reading Afterworlds - had always made Darcy feel naked and exposed, but loving had left her skinless.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. God didn't give us minds to be able to understand everything. That's part of the mystery. Now, you can drive yourself crazy tryin' to understand something you were never meant to figure out down here, or you can just trust Him 'til He's ready to let you in on it. 'Til then, just enjoy the mystery.

Renee Riva

#9. There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Thomas Browne

#10. Grit drives people to succeed, especially when they face daunting and prolonged challenges - a hallmark of every scaling effort. (Scaling Up Excellence)

Robert Sutton

#11. Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

Walter Hill

#12. Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Alfred North Whitehead

#13. The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

David Hume

#14. More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

John Barth