Melanie Rawn Quotes

#1. She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.

Michelle Tea

#2. My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.

Gregory Benford

#3. The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Melanie Rawn

#4. The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.

Melanie Rawn

#5. It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince

Melanie Rawn

#6. Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

Melanie Rawn

#7. You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. I know that for me, whenever I'm in a situation where there's death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#9. I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

Robert Scoble

#10. Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

Melanie Rawn

#11. If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

Melanie Rawn

#12. 5Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have,

Anonymous

#13. I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.

Melanie Rawn

#14. Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Bob Feller

#15. Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.

Melanie Rawn

#16. If I had any real idea of exactly where inspiration comes from, I'd go there, find the foolish thing, bottle it, sell it, and retire to Tuscany.

Melanie Rawn

#17. When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.

J. Richard Hackman

#18. Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

Melanie Rawn

#19. Part of the appeal of fantasy for me is that I don't get bored. If I want to write quasi-Medieval, that's what I write. If I feel like doing contemporary for a while, then I'll do it.

Melanie Rawn

#20. I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

Melanie Rawn

#21. My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

Melanie Rawn

#22. Architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

Cedric Price

#23. Life is a magnificent sacred journey of the soul.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Commissioner Marlowe stood on the platform with his arms crossed as we disembarked. He had the cheerful demeanor of someone who has been beaten about the face all night with a sock full of porridge--only even more so than usual.

William Ritter