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Boy," said the old man at last, "in five years, how would you like a job selling shoes in this emporium?"Gosh, thanks, Mr. Sanderson, but I don't know what I'm going to be yet."Anything you want to be son," said the old man, "you'll be. No one will ever stop you. Ray Bradbury
Margaret Atwood quote: "There is no fool like an educated fool..."
There is no fool like an educated fool... Margaret Atwood
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground. Cyril Connolly
Steve Jobs quote: "It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell" --..."
It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell" -- about i. Tunes on Windows computers Steve Jobs
Stephenie Meyer quote: "It's like pain, this pleasure."
It's like pain, this pleasure. Stephenie Meyer
Comrade, I did not want to kill you. . . . But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. . . . I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same... Erich Maria Remarque
If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won. Terry Prachett
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream? the life that now lay open before him. Robert Musil
What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl. Steig Larsson
This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time. Annie Dillard
The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. Jeanette Winterson
It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens, as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
She smiled and sipped from her glass. There was altogether too much of her sitting there, the broad expanse of thigh cradled in the insubstantial stocking and the garters with the pale flesh pursed and her full breasts and the sootblack piping of her eyelids, a gaudish rake of metaldust in prussian blue where cerulean moths fluttered her awake from some outlandish dream. Suttree gradually going awash in the sheer outrageous sentience of her. Their glasses clicked on the tabletop. Her hot... Cormac McCarthy
Ayla just didn't seem like a woman who was about to join and establish a new hearth with a man she loved. There was no joy, no excitement. Something was missing. Something called Jondalar. Jean M. Auel
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand..."
Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun. Jeffrey Eugenides

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