Poynter Quotes

#1. I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab.

Dougie Poynter

#2. you may wonder why people scolded you know , but may realize why the same people scolded you later . just accept and walk forward , will automatically understand later.

Shreya

#3. If I hadn't been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived a biological life-support system, I definitely would not be involved in life-support systems for space.

Jane Poynter

#4. It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and to share the marvelous moments with as well.

Jane Poynter

#5. If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

Dan Poynter

#6. When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent ... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

Owen Hart

#7. Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.

Jane Poynter

#8. I'm one of those people - I really feel that you can't go lookin' for love, love will come to you.

Romeo Miller

#9. To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.
[American Libraries Magazine, May 28, 2009]

Jon Bing

#10. Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.

Dan Poynter

#11. Like if Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started being all bummed out about everything. How were we going to kick arse if our Leonardo was wearing a black eye-band instead of a blue one?

Dougie Poynter

#12. If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

Dan Poynter

#13. Fiction writers can't be trusted. They make things up.

Dan Poynter

#14. Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

Dan Poynter

#15. Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!

Dougie Poynter

#16. It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.

Jane Poynter

#17. It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

Jane Poynter

#18. I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes.

Jane Poynter

#19. If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.

Ally Carter

#20. Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.

Joe Abercrombie

#21. Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about what is in your breath. There perhaps is the CO2 from the person sitting next-door to you.

Jane Poynter

#22. Maybe we live in a universe where all you have control over is your own kindness.

Polly Horvath

#23. The new technologies allow us to "dial down" human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.

Sherry Turkle

#24. Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

Dan Poynter

#25. Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Dan Poynter

#26. Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.

Dan Poynter

#27. What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#28. Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Dan Poynter

#29. If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Dan Poynter

#30. A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Dan Poynter

#31. People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

Dougie Poynter

#32. Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

Dan Poynter

#33. Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time.

Jane Poynter

#34. Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

Dan Poynter

#35. Look, this is an odd question, but you're kind of cute and you're pretty nice to me. Are you drunk? It's OK if you are.

Drew Carey

#36. My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

Dougie Poynter

#37. If only it were as easy to do the work of others
as it is to criticize their performance.

Dan Poynter

#38. As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#39. The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It's why the Americans are falling behind - they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they'd rather sit and pray that the world won't make them adapt too much.

Jaroslav Kalfar