Famous quotes by Authors

"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable, without having to qualify for that acceptance"

Paul Tournier, Author

"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Tearless grief bleeds inwardly"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi"

Larry Wall, Author

"Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again"

L. Frank Baum, Author

"Romance, like a ghost, escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory"

George William Curtis, Author

"Programmers can be lazy"

Larry Wall, Author

"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie"

Horace Walpole, Author

"I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"

L. Frank Baum, Author

"One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not"

Orlando A. Battista, Author

"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it"

Larry Wall, Author

"I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions"

Larry Wall, Author

"The test of civilization is its estimate of women"

George William Curtis, Author

"Nature makes woman to be won and men to win"

George William Curtis, Author

"Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge"

George William Curtis, Author

"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent"

Horace Walpole, Author

"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - they are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent"

Horace Walpole, Author

"We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second"

Horace Walpole, Author

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is"

Horace Walpole, Author

"Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires"

Brian Herbert, Author

"Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality"

Brian Herbert, Author

"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great"

Rose Kennedy, Author

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