Richard Ward Quotes

#1. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#2. A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

John Gierach

#4. By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped.

Walter Isaacson

#5. It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

David Brin

#6. Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape.

Richard J. Ward

#7. It's quite simple, they poisoned it with smoke, chemicals and pollution from factories and cars, and power stations. Silly humans knew what they were doing, but carried on poisoning the planet anyway.

Richard J. Ward

#8. We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.

Don Winslow

#9. He talks about despair, how it thrives in silence.

Gayle Forman

#10. Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

Honore De Balzac

#11. There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

Alan Coren

#12. I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.

Patricia C. Wrede

#13. The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

Carl Safina