McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do -- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

Stephen King

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Earl Nightingale

Then there was your voiceLike a windup tin toyLike the sweetest nails on a chalkboardThat I ever heard

Michelle Dalton

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

General George Patton

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Bernard Baruch

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Carl Sagan, In Parade, with Ann

Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!For who would live so petty and unblestThat dare not tilt at something ere he die;Rather than, screened by safe majority,Preserve his little life to little end,And never raise a rebel cry!

John Galsworthy

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Jack Kevorkian

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Al Goldstein

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Jamie Moyer

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Thornton Wilder