John Melton Quotes

#1. No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. I love being able to create characters, give them problems, and make sure everything turns out right in the end. Writing gives me limitless opportunity to study the human condition, and a love story with a positive ending always lifts my spirits and warms my heart.

Jennie Adams

#3. We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact."
"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

John Le Carre

#4. Lust, I suspect, wears repatent stilettos, that feather boa and not much else. Maybe glossy red lipstick.

Claire Cross

#5. The truth is helpless when up against perception

Zack W. Van

#6. When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

Nido Qubein

#7. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you'll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Cynthia

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. I must go where I am bound to go, and turn my back on the bright shores. I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

Peter Ackroyd

#10. One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

Ernst Gombrich