Mark Vorkosigan Quotes

#1. Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

John Green

#4. If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

Margaret Atwood

#5. She'd neglected to make choices for her inner self as well. She'd given away too much.

Mary Alice Monroe

#6. I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I think that informs a lot of what I write about. It could be a story about a couple, or a song about the slow death of the family farm or a small town.

Greg Brown

#8. What about us? He looks at me. Was there ever really an us? He asks. Or just a me, and a you, and these random moments when our lives accidently collide? Maybe that's it for us.

Katie Kacvinsky

#9. But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

Charles Barkley

#10. Mark's ideas tended to the bland, and there was no point in asking Miles, whose embittered suggestions all ran to things like Vomit Vanilla and Cockroach Crunch. Vorkosigan

Lois McMaster Bujold

#11. Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Jim Rohn

#12. Money is not important It is OK to lose in the markets Trading is a game Mental rehearsal is important for success They've won the game before they start[xlviii]

Bruce Bower

#13. You're the hero...," she said, finding his eyes,"...of your own story anyway.

V.E Schwab

#14. I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

Harry Browne

#15. I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of course, I almost never leave my home. Jonas is a great guy and was a big help to me.

Danny Bonaduce

#16. A king had best know the names of his enemies, don't you think?

George R R Martin

#17. Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

Concha Buika

#18. There is always that dream of escape, but there is no place to escape to, you just run into yourself.

Willy Vlautin