Horae Quotes

#1. In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
[Lat., Horae
Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

Horace

#2. Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger's end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.

Neal Stephenson

#3. I don't like to change things too much. I think pretty hard about things before I jump in, and once I do, I feel, 'All right, I don't want to waste the energy of buying, selling this, going on Consumer Reports, test driving, buying, selling a house.' I feel life is to be lived.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#4. When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

Luc Sante

#5. I have a suggestion," said Valentine to Luke, in a surprisingly even tone.
"Let me guess," said Luke. "It's 'Don't kill me,' isn't it?

Cassandra Clare

#6. Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Stephen Covey

#7. Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Johnny Carson

#8. Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators' ... nowadays it's 'fabricators' ... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.

Alexander Stoddart

#9. Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

John Szarkowski

#10. We are often embarrassed or too shy to ask for a clarification in a social setting, yet it is often necessary.

Scott Colter

#11. Sugartown Sugartown Sugartown Sugartown.

Jim Lewis

#12. Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

Paul Stewart

#13. When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

Adam Ant

#14. My wife had learned to give in to what someone older, stronger, and meaner wanted.

Deborah Harkness