Quintess Quotes

#1. As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

Ben Shneiderman

#3. Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

Jim Morrison

#4. So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'

Simon Winchester

#5. Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it for too long.

Hermann Hesse

#6. Because I care so much about what you think, my hiding has everything to do with you. I desperately want to manage your opinion of me. Nearly anything I do is to convince you I am good.

Emily P. Freeman

#7. Anything worth having is never simple or easy, Gabby ...

J.B. McGee

#8. Creativity is the elixir of life.

Phillip Gary Smith

#9. I swear Dev your cock is going to be the death of us all.'
Dev just sat back and smiled unrepentantly. 'I beg to differ. My cock is like a finely tuned homing device. He led me straight to the person I needed to see. His judgement is infallible ...

Lanie Malone

#10. The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

Mason Cooley

#11. Sometimes she felt she would like to engulf him like a trap-lantern, and never share him with anyone or anything else again, not even the light. Even his obsession with ruling Caverna pained her, as if the city were a woman, and a rival.

Frances Hardinge

#12. For a brief moment the previous day, I'd felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh's household had once cut him.

Kristen Reed