Taquana Houston Quotes

#1. The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

Yann Martel

#2. Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Peter Shaffer

#3. He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed

Michael Thomas Ford

#4. Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

Ramez Naam

#5. I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.

Donald Ray Pollock

#6. Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?"
"Dumb luck," Wit said. "In that I'm lucky you're all so dumb.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

J.P. Moreland

#8. Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him.

Charlie Finley

#10. In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

Evgeny Morozov

#11. It's a staircase in a house built by the construction firm of Escher and Sons.

Charles Yu

#12. The tears had turned to ink ...

Dawna Markova

#13. We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

Sam Brownback

#14. A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#15. Hey, come on, I've seen younger faces on money. Money.

Colin Mochrie