Szablewski Buck Quotes

#1. Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

Hayao Miyazaki

#2. Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc."

Al-Nawawi

#3. writing is a sanity-saving companion for people in times of grief, loss, illness, and other accidents of fate.

William Zinsser

#4. Yep. I'm totally familiar with that look. The I-can't-stand-the-fucking-sight-of-you-so-get-off-my-planet look. His

Penelope Douglas

#5. When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

Alex Haley

#6. To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

Dennis Prager

#7. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

#8. I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

Saul Williams

#9. I like the sun."
"Do you really? I didn't think you'd go in for simple things like sun. You're the neon type, aren't you?"
"If you say so.

Ross Macdonald

#10. But he was a connoisseur of the if-only, and so they did travel. They travelled in the past-conditional.

Julian Barnes