Straatsma Associates Quotes

#1. A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

Theodore Sturgeon

#2. It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

Lev Grossman

#3. If you wanted pomp and circumstance, you dealt with the vampires. If you wanted ceremony, the witches it was. But for plain old straight forward business, you dealt with the werewolves.

Chudney Thomas

#4. You were forthcoming, articulate, and gave the details. You're alibied up to your gonads
Oh, sorry."
"Not a problem, I like knowing that part of my anatomy is protected.

J.D. Robb

#5. You have not realized yet that both of you are mine, have you?

D.S. Wrights

#6. Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.

Ben Shapiro

#7. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#8. Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Joan Halifax

#9. It is impossible, he had found, if you rule, to do only good, for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he could not care about every life, every dream, every population of every world.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Mirages enchant us up to the very moment we die of thirst.

Marty Rubin

#11. I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

Jim Gaffigan

#12. Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

Jonathan Ames