Iconic Seventeen Quotes

#1. What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#3. And like most of her peers, Barbara Ann has a French postal worker's sense of divine entitlement when it comes to her hours.

Rob Reid

#4. It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.

Marisha Pessl

#5. They're measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant," he says. "There are three of them. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#6. It wasn't as easy for others to accept the darker side of themselves. Most like to cling to the notion that hesitation still marked the presence of morality. Deep down we were all just selfish animals. We liked to take ... or be taken.

Teresa Mummert

#7. This was it: this was the moment where I would have to decide whether I wanted to be the girl I'd always been, or whether I was ready to become someone new. Someone who was brave enough to crawl into the dark alone, and see where the risk would take her. Someone who was going to survive.

Mira Grant

#8. Put those pistols down at once,' he said coldly. 'Do not you know it is very rude to point a pistol at a person you do not mean to kill? For shame, Villiers. Where were you brought up?

Patrick O'Brian

#9. The power and the danger of magic lie in the people who believe it.

Diana Gabaldon