Tabitha Jack Quotes

#1. I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

Chuck D

#2. If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

Charles Bukowski

#3. A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

Robert Sheckley

#5. The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Pipes filled with brine that spied on the inhabitants of buildings watching, listening, hunting. You might obscure the attention of the Londonmancers, with the complicity of a treacherous borough, with strikebreaking hexes strong enough: but nothing could stay hidden from an inquisitive sea.

China Mieville

#7. Just make people better at something they want to be better at.

Kathy Sierra

#8. The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#9. In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

Peter Farb

#10. I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.

Brett Lee

#11. I'm alone, going in the opposite direction. We're on different tracks in more ways than one. All of a sudden the air feels thin and something heavy is bearing down on my chest. Am I really doing the right thing? The thought makes me feel helpless, isolated.

Haruki Murakami

#12. No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ...

Amitav Ghosh

#13. Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.

Stephenie Meyer