Scbwi Quotes

#1. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

Brian Rock

#2. The only way to avoid eternal punishment for sins we never committed from this all-loving God is to accept his son - who is actually himself - as our savior. So ... God sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself. Barking mad!

Peter Boghossian

#3. Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else - that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his subject matter.

George Orwell

#4. His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His

John Connolly

#5. Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

Jonathan Haidt

#6. I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.

Liam Payne

#7. What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#8. War makes rattling good history.

Thomas Hardy

#9. the shoulder I built up in Japan. Since I came to the major leagues, I couldn't train my own way, so now I've lost all those savings." Farrell

Terry Francona

#10. When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

Joshua Bloch

#11. I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

David Bowie

#12. Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

James Altucher

#13. Studies have shown the subconscious mind can process around 11 million bits of information per second. The conscious mind, however, can only process about 15 to 16 bits of information per second.

James Morcan

#14. Face your fears, endure its pain and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams.

Greg Plitt

#15. You will give birth to more in the future than you've lost in the past.

Joel Osteen