We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Hans Christian Andersen

Trzymajcie si? z dala od cz?owieka, który pracowa? w pocie czo?a nad rozwi?zaniem jakiej? zagadki, rozwi?za? j? i stwierdzi?, ?e nie jest m?drzejszy ni? przedtem - powiada Bokonon. - Przepe?nia go bowiem mordercza pogarda do ludzi, którzy s? równie g?upi jak on, ale nie doszli do swojej g?upoty równie ci??k? prac?.

Kurt Vonnegut

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

Cynthia McKinney

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.

Anita Shreve

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

Orson Scott Card

There are a few ironclad rules of diplomancy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job.

Bobby Heenan

There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.

Proverb

Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.

Source Unknown

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

Ron Fournier