Outwitting The Devil Quotes

#1. I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Wole Soyinka

#2. A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into something very different.

J. Budziszewski

#3. You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

Gil Scott-Heron

#4. It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

Rick Springfield

#5. Overcome with anger, David grabbed her other arm. Why did she have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she see how good The Wave could be? "We can stop you, and we will!

Morton Rhue

#6. door, something neither English nor American. "What do you think!" she exclaimed, coming in one morning as I was busy writing. "She's got a little iron grate on legs, and there's charcoal burning in it." "Who? Where?" I asked, coming out

William McFee

#7. I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my early twenties.

Kameron Hurley

#8. Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.

Melody Beattie

#9. As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.

Peter Diamandis

#10. Now everyone is a critic.

Christina Aguilera

#11. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Dorothy Parker

#12. I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

Drew Carey

#13. GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

Jack Dangermond

#14. Perhaps," observes James McPherson, "McClellan's career had been too successful. He had never known . . . the despair of defeat or the humiliation of failure. He had never learned the lessons of adversity and humility." Lincoln had clearly learned those lessons.

Joshua Wolf Shenk