Palmer Hayden Quotes

#1. People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.

William Zinsser

#2. When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

Harper Lee

#3. Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

Jeanne DuPrau

#4. You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that there should [only] be organization capable of providing food and shelter for all and organization to effect its proper distribution.

Reginald Fessenden

#6. With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Amy Tan

#7. A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

Eric S. Nylund

#8. The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#9. Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools!

Marshall McLuhan