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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d91de10 | Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate. | Michael Crichton | ||
| be1f9ae | To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 5260ea3 | At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 220c590 | The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing. | michael-crichton faith quote | Michael Crichton | |
| 29bce37 | Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny? | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 2163a3e | This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit-no matter how often he's reminded of it-that every day of his life takes him farther down a blind alley. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 314f71f | As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. It's a hamburger with chili on it. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 480f08f | The only way to prepare for a trip like this, I felt, was to dress up like human peacocks and get crazy, then screech off across the desert and cover the story. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 0a29108 | Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' . . . or maybe it was a 'cynical misanthrope'. . . but either way, he (or she) was right; and what got me this way was . | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 63d7b8d | It is difficult for the ordinary voter to come to grips with the notion that a truly | war politics | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| ae2524b | My own acid-eating experience is limited in terms of total consumption, but widely varied as to company and circumstances ... and if I had a choice of repeating any one of the half dozen bouts I recall, I would choose one of those Hell's Angels parties in La Honda, complete with all the mad lighting, cops on the road, a Ron Boise sculpture looming out of the woods, and all the big speakers vibrating with Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." It.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 48dac7d | It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ... | quotes-to-live-by | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 2fdcdd3 | There is an important difference between the words 'losers' and 'outlaw.' One is passive and the other is active, and the main reason the Angels are such good copy is that they are acting out the day-dreams of millions of losers who don't wear any defiant insignia and who don't know how to be outlaws. The streets of every city are thronged with men who would pay all the money they could get their hands on to be transformed-even for a day-in.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 3cd565f | Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value. | Scott Adams | ||
| f7f167f | A woman needs to be told that you would sacrifice anything for her. A man needs to be told he is being useful. When the man or woman strays from that formula, the other loses trust. When trust is lost, communication falls apart. | Scott Adams | ||
| 62fe2b4 | Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive. | Scott Adams | ||
| 8b3c65f | How can one part be more important if each part is completely necessary? | Scott Adams | ||
| 74a6cb0 | If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 75ba0a6 | The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still. | self-delusion | Robert Ludlum | |
| 5fcaeab | Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper " -- | Orson Scott Card | ||
| bb77cbf | The kid is scary. | kids space science-fiction | Orson Scott Card | |
| fda4975 | Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans." | plans | Orson Scott Card | |
| f34ccaa | Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays." Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the p.. | mind brain museum honor | Orson Scott Card | |
| 11f0d58 | I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 84c45ec | Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 9d667df | This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you." | love judging jane pee | Orson Scott Card | |
| c1551b7 | He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that. | self-pity | Orson Scott Card | |
| 197cbcc | I thought commanders could order anything." "They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but it doesn't happen. Listen, Ender, commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you." | ender-quintet ender-wiggin | Orson Scott Card | |
| 0a67d49 | I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two. The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew. The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new, And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you. | soulmates self soul | Orson Scott Card | |
| 03e5080 | With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe. | universe life purpose | Orson Scott Card | |
| f0e79ee | I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 6b9e07a | Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. | slavery path | Orson Scott Card | |
| 83122ad | Quick as a flash, Sawney Rath's eyes hardened. "Then I'm ordering you to skin Felch alive!" He took the otter's paw, closing it over the knife handle. "Obey me!" The crowded clearing became as silent as a tomb. All eyes were upon the Taggerung, awaiting his reaction to the order. Tagg turned his back on Sawney and strode to the side of the fox strung up to the beech bough. He raised the blade. Felch shut his eyes tight, his head shaking bac.. | redwall | Brian Jacques | |
| a0c938d | Tell the Queen that there's been a robin red-breast hanging about Kotir grounds. It flies down low and vanishes near the floor. Cludd thinks it might be something to do with those woodlanders. Now, I'm to say nothing to Fortunata or Ashleg... 'I must tell the Queen that a robin has seen Cludd hanging about. No, that's not right. I must tellt he robin taht Cludd has been hanging the Queen. | funny thicktail-the-stoat | Brian Jacques | |
| a8b621c | All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse. | shining the | Brian Jacques | |
| 070eb17 | He was now suddenly hot, as hot as if he'd been in a kitchen baking cinnamon rolls in August. I already knew vampires could sweat, under certain conditions, like being chained to a wall of a house with sunlight coming in through the windows. He was sweating again now. Some of his sweat fell on me. I've always rather liked sweat. On other occasions when I've had a naked, sweating male body up against mine, I've tended to feel that it meant h.. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 99ec4a3 | the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil | Robin McKinley | ||
| b29f8b6 | One day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and nothing more, and if you're very lucky there will be children, and the children will pet you and pet you and pet you. Ossin has a list, I think, of such children; he sends his hunting-staff out during the months they are not needed for that work, to look for them, and add names to the list." The fleethounds stared back at .. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 2f9c92a | She thought, He's afraid I'll make a mess of it. She was sure she had been careful to think that on the safe, private side of the silent border, but Ebon turned on her and said, | Robin McKinley | ||
| 958b818 | I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 128a0e4 | The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear. | relationships life | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 4a96f37 | It is as if we are trapped in a never-ending game, our lives hinging on the roll of a dice or the turn of a card. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 0fc6e70 | Everything from the little house was in the wagon except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| cee6ab7 | Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time | Dick Francis |