Paretsky Novels Quotes

#1. A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.

Sara Paretsky

#2. Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#3. we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death!

Susan Cain

#4. I see myself as an entertainer.

Ben Mezrich

#5. No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

Georgette Heyer

#6. The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered gleam of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.

Madeline Miller

#7. Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#8. Disagreement is something normal.

Dalai Lama

#9. For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'

Alex Ebert

#10. Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

Richard Powers

#11. If you don't feel like changing and don't have the motivation to do it for you then there's not a single diet or pill that will work.

Emma James

#12. There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

E.W. Howe

#13. One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.

William Shakespeare

#14. Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Benjamin Franklin

#15. Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

Jaime Hernandez

#16. What we see today then is not an emerging India but a re-emerging one. A nation slowly reclaiming its rightful place at the top of the world's economic pyramid.

Sidin Vadukut