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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8e2359c | Drummer, beat, and piper, blow, Harper, strike, and soldier, go. Free the flame and sear the grasses Till the dawning Red Star passes. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 6b8b858 | what we call a chaotic system--meaning that its adjacent solutions diverge exponentially in time. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 4276bb7 | The AI told her not long ago that her "Why?" period might have been the shortest on record - because Mum and Dad answered every "Why?" in detail AND made sure she understood, so she wouldn't ask that particular "Why?" again. After a month "Why?" wasn't fun anymore, and she went on to other things." | toddler why | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 5dbf18e | Lamoth dies. In shame. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| ca21b2a | I like opera just fine; it's people I wanted to get away from." As" | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 56010a4 | chuckled, referring to the time Markel had used up sixty percent of the system's resources to simulate a series of space battles in real time for one of his war games. Markel flushed. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 02e9dd0 | Timeon had quite possibly been traveling a long time, Mearme thought with no compassion. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 62ff177 | It is the voice we communicate with, the voice which utters the words we seek to impress on men's minds, the voice which evokes emotional response; tears, laughter, sense. Your voice is the most important, most complex, most amazing instrument of all. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| af185b7 | Your initial mistake, my dear F'lar," and the Harper's voice was at its drollest, "was in providing salvation from the last imminent disaster in a scant three days by bringing up the Five Lost Weyrs. The Lord Holders really expect you to provide a second miracle in similar short order." | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| bca19fe | Reading has not gone out of fashion in the last number of years, nor in the ones while you slept in the asteroid belt. Your relatives do not wish to expose themselves to deep thought, lest they be affected by it. | critical-thinking reading thought | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 03804a3 | Queens can, too, fly," she blurted out, daring him. His grin broadening to suffuse his face, he put his hands on her shoulders and gave her an affectionate shake. "Of course they can fly," he assured her, his voice full of pride and respect. "That's why they have wings!" | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 0c92d50 | Exchange information, learn to talk sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 1d2c8ef | I feel obliged to explain that I thought for quite a few years that I had lost my daughter to pirates during the Phoenix incident," she said. "The first thing anyone knew, the legitimate colony was gone and heavyworlders had moved in. I harbored a very deep resentment that they were living on that bright and shiny new planet while I grieved for my daughter. It's affected my good judgment somewhat ever since." Lunzie swallowed. "I apologize .. | generalization racism | Anne McCaffrey | |
| fd315d8 | An important revision of the traditional image of the spaceship was made in Anne McCaffrey's Helva stories, beginning in 1961 with The Ship Who Sang. This series is set in a future when severely disabled children are given the chance to become starships by becoming enclosed in a metal shell connected directly to their brain. This is an enabling procedure involving 'schooling' (not programming) and complex neural and sensory connections bein.. | David Seed | ||
| 4134db8 | Each egg hatched a different way, but a crack at the right time speeded things up. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 36f393e | There's a reason that some of our oldest and most important stories start with "Once upon a time . . ." Tucked among the fantastical characters and magical other-worlds are profound truths. Lloyd Alexander, author of the beloved Chronicles of Prydain, said, "Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it." With that, we present to you this collection of wise and beautiful quotes from some of the greatest authors in.. | notable-people quotes | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 2615cf5 | If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet," said Priscilla. | Anne of Avonlea | ||
| d3a9d95 | She sorted out the young men. Tanner's opportunism amused but did not specifically attract her; the blond Nordsen seemed too simple; dark-haired Al-atpay had a kind of obstinacy with which she felt no compassion: Mir-Ahnin's bitterness hinted an inner darkness she did not wish to lighten, although he made the biggest outward play for her attention. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| aad216d | Physical injury is the least of the harmful accidents that this universe inflicts on its inhabitants; it is soonest mended. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 0e0a46a | None of my family is good at being patient. It's why we all become doctors. | humor patience | Anne McCaffrey | |
| e5d0e96 | for when speech is restricted, all men suffer, | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| f49b6ab | fashion. I'm sure he mistook you for one of those... | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| f41e932 | can seem very attractive to someone who has no idea at all what it really means; and | William Sleator | ||
| 8cfd381 | The discomforting claim made by biologists that people live among dense swarms of invisible microorganisms--no matter how "hygienic" people imagine themselves to be--turned out to be true." | William Sleator | ||
| 0482cba | In my judgment excellence and wealth are direct opposites. | Apollonius of Tyana | ||
| cb8a1d5 | dydm khh shtbh fkhry chh `wqby mmkhn st dshth bshd w khTrjm`y byj chqdr khTrnkh st w Tmynny khh z ndydn wq`yt nshy myshwd mrg awr st. | e. l. Doctorow | ||
| 5f7560d | Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority with which they drew the human figure; now there are very few who can do that. Most modern illustraters fudge a horse the best they can and hope to get on by the technique. | Russell Hoban | ||
| a3ebb94 | He grew morose, and felt himself half overcome by funk | Russell Hoban | ||
| 3d9ce07 | Yes thats what I done you sorry sods I over the fents and off with the dogs... | Russell Hoban | ||
| 4dbd7a1 | Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority with which they drew the human figure; now there are very few who can do that. Most modern illustraters fudge a horse the best they can and hope to get on by the technique." Russell Hoban also says in the introduction to Household Tales, "It isn't at all suprising that horses figure in so many diffrent ways i.. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 1487659 | Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority with which they drew the human figure; now there are very few who can do that. Most modern illustraters fudge a horse the best they can and hope to get on by the technique." "It isn't at all suprising that horses figure in so many diffrent ways in myth - there is such power in them beyond the physical. The pr.. | Russell Hoban | ||
| a06ccad | Navigare necesse est. Vivere non est necesse.' I've | Russell Hoban | ||
| bf33d60 | Eusa 13. Eusa was angre he was in rayj & he kep pulin on the Littl Man the Addoms owt strecht arms. The Littl Man the Addom he begun tu cum a part he cryd, I wan tu go I wan tu stay. Eusa sed, tel mor. The Addom sed, I wan tu dark, I wan tu lyt, I wan tu day I wan tu nyt. Eusa sed, tel mor. The Addom sed, I wan tu woman, I wan tu man. Eusa sed, tel mor. The Addom sed, I wan tu plus I wan tu minus, I wan tu big, I wan tu littl, I wan tu aul,.. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 46c9159 | It isn't at all suprising that horses figure in so many diffrent ways in myth and story-there is such power in them beyond the phsyical. The prehistoric life in them seems whole and intact. Any horse you meet seems to have in it a knowing that is deeper, older, more primal than our own; they seem witnesses to something lost to the sight of humankind. There is something important about horses. See a great dark carthorse in the rain steam com.. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 4ffebbc | sharna pax and hed on a poal when the ardship of Cambry come out of his hoal | post-apocalyptic | Russell Hoban | |
| 5787526 | We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still. | collective-unconscious consciousness fiction macrocosm microcosm virtual-reality wisdom | Russell Hoban | |
| 276f3f3 | To speak falsely is the mark of a slave, but the truth is noble. | Apollonius of Tyana | ||
| 6c18063 | I stil aint qwite said how it wer. Not like a diffrent country. It wer mor like I wer behynt the back clof in a show. Thats how it wer. Thru the clof I cud see the other figgers moving I cud see the peopl watching only no 1 cud see me. If I wer a figger in a show what hand wer moving me then? I cudnt be bothert to think on that right then. Theres all ways some thingwl be moving you if it aint 1 thing its a nother you cant help that. | life | Russell Hoban | |
| 09fad7c | Seeds blow in the wind and what is earf but a deadness with life growing out of it? | Russell Hoban | ||
| 371c931 | How do the turtles find Ascension Island? There are sharks in the water too. Some of the turtles get eaten by sharks. Do the turtles know about sharks? How do they not think about the sharks when they're swimming that 1,400 miles? Green turtles must have the kind of mind that doesn't think about sharks unless a shark is there. That must be how it is with them. I can't believe they'd swim 1,400 miles thinking about sharks. | Russell Hoban | ||
| ae92d17 | This is the real thing,' said Caroline. 'It's the deepest, the profoundist. It's the big bazonga, it's really existential.' "OK," I said, watching a distant sweeper with a faulty program banging again and again into the information kiosk, 'just don't tell me it's a metaphor, OK?" -- | Russell Hoban | ||
| 32aad9b | Lots of noise but behind the hiss of purple rain the silence is cruising like a shark. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 3d8a1d3 | People ask me how I got from St Eustace to Riddley Walker and all I can say is that it's a matter of being friends with your head. Things come into the mind and wait to hook up with other things; there are places that can heighten your responses, and if you let your head go its own way it might, with luck, make interesting connections. On March 14th, 1974 I got lucky. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 964b144 | Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where youre going? | Russell Hoban |