Pallister Killian Quotes

#1. Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

Gregory McDonald

#2. So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. That's how badly people wanted it - to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been still existed inside of them. There

Emma Cline

#3. I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

Tatiana Maslany

#4. But those start-up founders don't hide their failures; to the contrary, they flaunt them - blogging about them, gathering to talk about them at conferences like FailCon.

Jessica Bennett

#5. Without a past you can't have a future.

Michael Ende

#6. Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.

Tim Fargo

#7. He is overcome with the disease of love, the drunkenness of generations past. When are we ourselves, he wonders, trudging through the snow-covered banks, his coat illuminated by moon-light.

Patti Smith

#8. It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

Mallory Ortberg

#9. Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

Ayn Rand

#12. If you have a dream in your heart that beats with the pulse of the night, then your soul is happy.

Ilchi Lee

#13. The challenge for physics is deriving the consensus reality from the external reality, and the challenge for cognitive science is to derive the internal reality from the consensus reality.

Max Tegmark

#14. I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

Lauren London