Weyrs Quotes

#1. I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.

Marie Brennan

#2. Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

Theodore Dalrymple

#3. Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

Craig Charles

#4. I won't be mad, he'd told Tobin, but he was mad. Really mad. Not mad enough to kill a kid, of course not (probably of course not), but he wasn't going to let the little Judas-goat out of his sight, either.

Stephen King

#5. The only antidote to materialism is giving, because materialism's all about getting. Every time I give, my heart grows bigger. Every time I give, I become more like Jesus.

Rick Warren

#6. The gods need heroes. They always have.

Rick Riordan

#7. Wind does not discriminate - it touches everyone, everything. He liked that about wind.

Lish McBride

#8. The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.

Prince

#10. Love has nothing to do with knowing someone. And, everything to do with need.

Katherine Owen

#11. To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Mark Twain

#12. He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

Idries Shah

#13. Severed heads never go out of fashion. Used sparingly and with artistic sensibility, they can make a point a great deal more eloquently than those still attached.

Joe Abercrombie

#14. In Christ we live as God's beloved before we were born and after we have died; all the circumstances in between will not negate that. Jean

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#15. Is information from the inside; physics is information from the outside.

Jim Holt