Tenbroek Conference Quotes

#1. If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it,

Austin Kleon

#2. To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!

Bram Stoker

#3. Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

David Attenborough

#4. Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Francis Bacon

#5. Seven months Naasir had been hunting. Seven months since he'd told Ashwini he was ready to find a mate. Seven months and still his mate hadn't made herself known to him. Didn't she know he was looking for her?

Nalini Singh

#6. Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study.

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

Geoff Mulgan

#8. Stormy Weather is really wonderful - it ought to be required reading for everyone who is concerned about our planet's climate, beginning in every high school in the country.

Ross Gelbspan

#9. Edith Wharton did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn't pretty.

Jonathan Franzen