James Blish Quotes

#1. James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

Anne McCaffrey

#2. She was right. Peace was the way.
She was right. But at the wrong time.

James Blish

#3. The omelette tasted like flannel.

James Blish

#4. In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

James Blish

#5. Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

James Blish

#6. Who does it hurt? That's who the story is about.

James Blish

#7. I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded for long.
And I have 1,898 letters from people who don't believe it either.

James Blish

#8. Satan does not care how much you theorize about Christianity or how much you profess to know Christ. What he opposes vigorously is the way you live Christ.

Billy Graham

#9. But now the shots began - not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.

James Blish

#10. [T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...

James Blish

#11. Many things
such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly
are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

C.S. Lewis

#12. It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#13. The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.

Howard Schultz

#14. I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

Wallace Thurman

#15. Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

James Blish