Sparsely Define Quotes

#1. People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based ... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

Anne McCaffrey

#2. For the first time I had the best of both worlds
a mission to live for and a man to love.

Rie Warren

#3. I am talking about the general psychological health
of the species, man. He needs the existence of
mysteries. Not their solution.

John Fowles

#4. While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She was suffering inside.

Tracy Chevalier

#5. And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

Scott McCloud

#6. We had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Miranda July

#7. You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.

Douglas Preston

#8. Well, neither vanity nor the need for adoration - the sad substitute for the supreme confirmation of one's existence which only love, mutual love, can give - belongs among the mortal sins; but they are unsurpassed prompters when we need suggestions for making fools of ourselves.

Hannah Arendt

#9. For years now there had been no country here but the war.

Michael Herr

#10. I made promises. I intend to keep them.

Meredith Wild

#11. If you lose the Spirit, you are lost.

Kevin W. Pearson

#12. It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

Howard Raiffa

#13. A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

Laozi

#14. Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ...

Megan Johns

#15. Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Mark Twain