Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Quotes about thing page 88
“It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.”
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
Source: And Then There Were None
“And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.”
Sabrina Jeffries (1960) American writer
“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book Three: Centavos
“Funny always makes the bad things go away.”
Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries
Source: The Carrie Diaries
“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)
“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor
Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
“There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.”
Joe Haldeman (1943) American science fiction writer
“There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.”
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Source: Mockingjay
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Source: Andy Warhol, Thirty Are Better Than One
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Social Deterioration
1980s–1990s, Is Reality Optional? (1993)
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Variant: Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.
Jean Shepherd (1921–1999) American writer and radio host
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
"I'm not in denial." "See what I mean? That's denial." Micah and Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 5, p. 60
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother
“His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.”
A.A. Milne book Once on a Time
Source: Once on a Time
“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Revolution
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Things couldn't stay the same forever.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
Bringing Science Down to Earth (1994), co-authored with Anne Kalosh, in Hemispheres (October 1994), p. 99 http://books.google.com/books?id=gJ1rDj2nR3EC&lpg=PA99&pg=PA99; this is similar to statements either mentioned in earlier interviews or published later in the book The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. <br class="br"> "Why We Need To Understand Science" in The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3 (Spring 1990) http://www.csicop.org/si/show/why_we_need_to_understand_science <br class="br">Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. <br class="br"> "With Science on Our Side" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/01/09/with-science-on-our-side/9e5d2141-9d53-4b4b-aa0f-7a6a0faff845/, Washington Post (9 January 1994) <br class="br">We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it? <br class="br"> Charlie Rose: An Interview with Carl Sagan http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/4553, May 27, 1996. <br class="br">I know that science and technology are not just cornucopias pouring good deeds out into the world. Scientists not only conceived nuclear weapons; they also took political leaders by the lapels, arguing that their nation — whichever it happened to be — had to have one first. … There’s a reason people are nervous about science and technology.<br>And so the image of the mad scientist haunts our world—from Dr. Faust to Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. Strangelove to the white-coated loonies of Saturday morning children’s television. (All this doesn’t inspire budding scientists.) But there’s no way back. We can’t just conclude that science puts too much power into the hands of morally feeble technologists or corrupt, power-crazed politicians and decide to get rid of it. Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. Advances in transportation, communication, and entertainment have transformed the world. The sword of science is double-edged. Rather, its awesome power forces on all of us, including politicians, a new responsibility — more attention to the long-term consequences of technology, a global and transgenerational perspective, an incentive to avoid easy appeals to nationalism and chauvinism. Mistakes are becoming too expensive. <br class="br">"Why We Need To Understand Science" in The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3 (Spring 1990) <br class="br">Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don’t conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything — new ideas and established wisdom. We need wide appreciation of this kind of thinking. It works. It’s an essential tool for a democracy in an age of change. Our task is not just to train more scientists but also to deepen public understanding of science. <br class="br">"Why We Need To Understand Science" in The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3 (Spring 1990) <br class="br">Science is [...] a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along. <br class="br"> Charlie Rose: An Interview with Carl Sagan http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/4553 (27 May 1996)
“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”
Stephen King book Doctor Sleep
Source: Doctor Sleep
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Great Things Are Done
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle
Source: Message in a Bottle
“If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.”
Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer
Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.”
Steven Erikson book House of Chains
House of Chains (2002)
“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess
Source: The Undomestic Goddess
“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
The Men Who Are Making America (1918) by Bertie Charles Forbes
“You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.”
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: Ransom
“Saying is one thing and doing is another.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book II, Ch. 31
Essais (1595), Book II
“An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Source: The Song of Achilles
