Stickler Syndrome Quotes

#1. The character's flaw will shape every other aspect of your book. The flaw is the engine that drives your entire book, from hooking your reader's interest to propelling the plot to its climax - so choose your flaw with care, and make it count.

Libbie Hawker

#2. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

Thomas Hobbes

#3. Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

Satish Kumar

#4. I have to remember, too, that sex is one of those areas - like religion and politics - where otherwise decent and rational people may have intense, irrational feelings.

Oliver Sacks

#5. You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

Shannon Hale

#6. Senlin did not believe in that sort of love: sudden and selfish and insatiable. Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete.

Josiah Bancroft

#7. Living in the fifties America was in many ways like living in a public space that's suddenly emptied out, a theater after closing, or a classroom after school. The emptiness could feel liberating, but it could also make you feel blank and vaguely nostalgic.

James Harvey

#8. In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.

Ralph Marston

#9. Truly it is said, that knowledge is chief of all things, my son. It allows us to see clearly what we may achieve. Conjecture is no substitute for fact.

Richard Masefield

#10. Look to see who is truly serving the world, truly seeking to share wisdom and knowledge, insight and understanding, caring and compassion. Provide for those people, and provide grandly. Pay them the highest honor. Give them the largest amount. For these are the Bringers of the Light.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. You're starting to sound a lot like my mother." "Captivating?" Syl said. "Amazing, witty, meaningful?" "Repetitive." "Captivating?" Syl said. "Amazing, witty, meaningful?" "Very funny.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. It's for this reason that, however counterintuitive it may seem, psychologists actually recommend that we fail early and often.

Shawn Achor

#13. I want things so bad that I force them, push them until they tear.

Samantha Schutz

#14. Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Alvin Toffler

#15. The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.

Chuck Jones