Nikki Banas Quotes

#1. Remember what we wrote? 'And just as I cannot imagine how I survived the past without you ... I cannot imagine a future without you.' Remember? Well, I'm the future without her, buddy boy, and I can tell you right now that it's not something you're going to relish.

Peter David

#2. I'll never use force to try to make my enemies think the way I think, George - partly because I don't believe in it, and partly because it's useless. You can't destroy ideas by force, and you can't hide 'em by silence.

Kenneth Roberts

#3. to be among the ruins was to have your time-sense unsettled.

V.S. Naipaul

#4. We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.

Beth Gibbons

#5. We're not making mistakes. We're making experiences.

Dan Bergstein

#6. What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of your friends and family, sometimes there's quite sad episodes in their life and everything. So just little things I've picked up along the years always find a way into all of my stories.

Mark Millar

#7. No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

Irving Howe

#8. Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.

Robert B. Parker

#9. WikiLeaks, for me, has not only that element in it of journalism publishing, but also the way in which it does it, with its - the concept we have of scientific journalism, I find very important and really appeals to me, that all of the source documents should be there.

Sarah Harrison

#10. I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.

Heather O'Neill

#11. It's a well-known fact that black sheep should never have lambs. You know what you get when you take a black sheep and give it a lamb? You get a thing called "supervised visitation" that's what.

Laurie Notaro

#12. My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

Tift Merritt

#13. It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

John Updike

#14. When we're on the space station, we orbit the Earth 16 times per day, which means we're constantly moving to and away from the sun. From light to shadow, the temperature swings by 300 degrees. Of course we're protected by the gear we wear, but you can definitely feel this temperature change.

Thomas Marshburn