Reames Quotes

#1. A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Tom Rachman

#2. One essential characteristic of modern life is that we all depend on systems - on assemblages of people or technologies or both - and among our most profound difficulties is making them work.

Atul Gawande

#3. Am I insane? I ask limply, and all feelings have fled my body. I'm numb. I'm a piece of wood. I'm a sponge, and I have no feelings, and I've absorbed all of this insanity for so long that now I'm insane myself. That's the only possible answer.

Courtney Cole

#4. Vegas is definitely a place where we can win. We had a good run here last year, and I feel even more confident about the car we're taking this time. We're taking the car that we raced in California two weeks ago, and it was obviously a good car.

Greg Biffle

#5. Damn it, Bennett! Who the hell are you trying to prove yourself to? They're all inside. Everyone knows you are a bloody alpha - a literally bloody one right now. You don't have to hop to prove a point.

Kim Dare

#6. My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.

Jane Lindskold

#7. Maybe we were the Diggers of literature.

Wallace Stegner

#8. Will Graham, the keenest hound ever to run in Crawford's pack, was a legend at the Academy; he was also a drunk in Florida now with a face that was hard to look at, they said.

Thomas Harris

#9. UnMarketing: Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer.

Brene Brown

#10. It's not really a practical dream to have, is it?
He stares right at me. It's intense, being under the weight of his full attention. Dreams have to be practical?

Hannah Harrington