Roger Raglin Quotes

#1. Consider me no fool because my tongue is mad. I salt a truth with jest that it sound not dull and heavy. There is more than jig and cadence in my words. I am of stronger fiber than you think. If there comes a time for proof I shall not fail.

Charles S. Brooks

#2. The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

Courtney B. Vance

#3. Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

Bikram Choudhury

#4. The writing is the first thing that goes when I get a little down. Just like ... in terms of how I feel, it's like the writing is in the top five percent, and then that's the first part that gets shaved off, and I start down a little bit.

Tony Earley

#5. Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

Aristotle.

#6. I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.

William Stanley Jevons

#7. I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.

Lauren Oliver

#8. When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

Astro Teller

#9. Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

Kobo Abe