Michael Garibaldi Quotes

#1. My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.

Ida Tarbell

#2. I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.

Edward M. Lerner

#3. In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. This was the man who'd bested her.
This was the man she'd have to kill today.

Sasha Alsberg

#5. It's what they call it when they suck the soul out of your mouth.

J.K. Rowling

#6. It's not poop, it's chocolate ... just don't try to eat it because it's full of E. coli.

L. H. Cosway

#7. There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

Donnie Yen

#8. We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought ... We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while.

J. W. N. Sullivan

#9. Life starts from a white hole and ends in a black hole.

Santosh Kalwar

#10. God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.

Tony Gaskins

#11. I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.

Marlon James

#12. She was plagued again by the feeling that the room in which she stood, the earth on which it was built, and the universe in which it turned were as insubstantial as smoke, subject to sudden change. (pg. 249)

Dean Koontz

#13. But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

George Saintsbury

#14. He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

Douglas Reed