Top 100 Mccaffrey Quotes
#1. The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.
A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!'
A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. 'No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol.
Rick Riordan
#2. By Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough: Powers that Be Power Lines Power Play
Anonymous
#3. Yes, I would die to save Meg McCaffrey. - Apollo/Lester
Rick Riordan
#4. There were Lolo McCaffrey's thick braids and patchouli-oil smell, crouched down by the nutritional bars, her moon face staring at the label of a Clif Bar like someone who can't read.
J. Ryan Stradal
#5. Since you (US "drug tsar" McCaffrey) control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?
James P. Gray
#6. Meg McCaffrey, a girl of few words and much belching.
Rick Riordan
#7. The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Barry McCaffrey
#8. 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
#9. That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it.
Rob McCaffrey
#10. But she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not.
Anne McCaffrey
#11. My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.
Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.
We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been
And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.
Anne McCaffrey
#12. teeth. It was her offering which Aivas was rejecting. 'Of course,' and she brightened, 'we could keep some around to study and learn from, couldn't we?' She saw the horror and disgust of some of her colleagues. 'No, I guess we couldn't. Ah, well, back to microscope. My 98th batch of trials today.
Anne McCaffrey
#13. I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
Anne McCaffrey
#14. The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
Anne McCaffrey
#15. The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
Anne McCaffrey
#17. People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based ... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
Anne McCaffrey
#18. A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.
Anne McCaffrey
#19. I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
Anne McCaffrey
#20. Chemical properties in the peat stop anything from rotting, so bogs are the "bank vaults" of Irish history, protecting whatever is put in them. A bog-cutter recently described finding a slab of butter, still edible after more than a hundred years.
Carmel McCaffrey
#21. Complacency and ignorance," Zebara suggested, pouring more brandy. "A very good way to keep a large population so tractable the society lacks rebellion." "But
Anne McCaffrey
#22. It must be an amazing mind-set, Afra thought, to consider one's self the only being of worth in the galaxy. There had been Humans who had had such delusions. They had generally died because of them
Anne McCaffrey
#23. Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears.
Anne McCaffrey
#24. Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future.
Anne McCaffrey
#25. Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.
Barry McCaffrey
#26. Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
Anne McCaffrey
#28. I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
Anne McCaffrey
#30. I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.
Anne McCaffrey
#31. We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.
Barry McCaffrey
#32. It does not matter what the media say, so long as they say something with one's name in it.
Anne McCaffrey
#33. Some folk, too, believe what the loudest talker says. And some folk because it frightens them not to.
Anne McCaffrey
#34. If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live.
Anne McCaffrey
#35. This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products
Larry McCaffrey
#36. I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
Anne McCaffrey
#37. You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn's meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels!
Anne McCaffrey
#38. We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones
Barry McCaffrey
#39. Meg looked at me with something resembling respect. "What did you do to them?"
"Nothing," I said. "Half the trick to being a god is knowing how to bluff.
Rick Riordan
#40. What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic! Master
Anne McCaffrey
#41. At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
Anne McCaffrey
#42. Every day is a test," Cisca replied soberly. "But we'll never learn new ways of doing things if we insist on telling everyone what they should be doing.
Todd J. McCaffrey
#43. But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
Anne McCaffrey
#44. Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond.
Anne McCaffrey
#45. Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!
Anne McCaffrey
#46. If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
Barry McCaffrey
#47. Each egg hatched a different way, but a crack at the right time speeded things up.
Anne McCaffrey
#48. What do you think of Manchester Uniteds three Rs - Rooney, Ronaldo and van Nistelrooy?
Rob McCaffrey
#49. Die happy-I will, F'nor cried, cutting more fruit.
Anne McCaffrey
#50. How much can a dragon carry?
As much as it thinks it can
Anne McCaffrey
#51. But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
Anne McCaffrey
#52. Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.
Anne McCaffrey
#54. We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
Barry McCaffrey
#55. To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.
Anne McCaffrey
#56. My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.
Nadia McCaffrey
#57. Scuse me, lady, but I'm Wisp, 'cause that's all I am, a wisp of a thing, not much good for changing a thing in the world, said the boy for when he stepped inside, the light from the grimy window gave her a good view of his anxious, pointed little face.
Anne McCaffrey
#58. Living is struggling to do something impossible;
To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
Anne McCaffrey
#59. Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
Anne McCaffrey
#60. Do not fear death, for it does not fear you. We are not weak because we are women. Instead, we are strong.
Kristy McCaffrey
#61. I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
Anne McCaffrey
#62. When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.
Anne McCaffrey
#63. Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."
~ A thought by Lessa ~
Anne McCaffrey
#64. all the time complaining at me that she could have had a career dancing topless at the Orbital Grill and Rendezvous Parlor. Her and her perky breasts. Yasmin, I told her, all the girls have perky breasts in zero-g, you were nothing special, you're lucky a good man took you away from all that.
Anne McCaffrey
#65. I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
Anne McCaffrey
#66. I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media ... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.
Anne McCaffrey
#67. Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
Anne McCaffrey
#68. Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition
Anne McCaffrey
#69. If he isn't clean now, I don't know what clean is!
Anne McCaffrey
#70. I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
Anne McCaffrey
#71. And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.
Anne McCaffrey
#72. Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away.
Anne McCaffrey
#73. Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing
Of hope and promise on dragonwing
Anne McCaffrey
#74. Step by step
Moment by moment
We live through
Another day
Anne McCaffrey
#75. The bronze rider of Mnementh, Lord F'lar, will require quarters for himself. I, F'nor, brown rider, prefer to be lodged with the wingmen. We are, in number, twelve. F'lar liked that touch of F'nor's, totting up the wing strength, as if Fax were incapable of counting.
Anne McCaffrey
#76. I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
Anne McCaffrey
#77. It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak.
Anne McCaffrey
#79. There's nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith.
Anne McCaffrey
#80. There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.
Anne McCaffrey
#81. My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.
Anne McCaffrey
#82. Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
Anne McCaffrey
#83. I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
Anne McCaffrey
#84. Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
Barry McCaffrey
#85. I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.
Anne McCaffrey
#87. How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
Anne McCaffrey
#88. Ramoth's huge golden wedge-shaped head swiveled around as the sleepy dragon instinctively sought her Wyermate.
Anne McCaffrey
#89. I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.
Anne McCaffrey
#91. Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts.
Anne McCaffrey
#92. Harper, treat your words with care
For they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above
Anne McCaffrey
#94. He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.
Anne McCaffrey
#97. When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.
Barry McCaffrey
#98. Meg gagged. "I hate bugs."
That made sense for a daughter of the agriculture goddess, but to me the dead ant didn't seem any grosser than the piles of garbage in which we often swam.
Rick Riordan
#99. So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey
#100. That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
Anne McCaffrey
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