Quotes About Author

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

More important than being able to do mathematics is to be sure the applications are meaningful.

Una cosa che non mi può succedere: perdere tempo a leggere il libro di uno scrittore che non stimo e aggiungere la perdita di tempo di scrivere contro.

Un escriptor instiga, sobretot, a la lectura, i de vegades també a l'escriptura. Un escritor instiga, sobretodo, a la lectura, y, de vez en cuando también a la escritura

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.

suspects waive their Miranda rights in 83.7 percent of interrogations.28 A national study came to a similar conclusion and found that 81 percent of all suspects waived their rights.

For suspects undergoing police interrogation, the rulings provide very little protection from coercion, so long as the officers don't use physical force.

It has been explained in chapter 1 that the laws of physics, as we know them, are statistical laws.2 They have a lot to do with the natural tendency of things to go over into disorder.

Yay!" I say for the both of us, since Jack is now sleepily staring into his coffee mug.

Chip said it was his piano hands - one ain't never doing the same thing as the other.

This sky, Sid.It's the sky of the great epics.The great Polish epics. Of Pan Tadeusz

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

The Universal Laws: Defined There are three Eternal Universal Laws that we want to assist you in understanding more clearly so that you may apply

Love in all its forms is the most important matter that we will ever face, but also the most dangerous, the most unpredictable, the most maddening. But it is also the only salvation I know of

For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.

Scriitorul nu e nici un sfânt, nici profet care profeÈ›eÈ™te la porÈ›ile orasului; e un p?c?tos ca oricare altul, îns? ceva mai lucid È™i dotat cu un limbaj ceva mai precis pentru a descrie realitatea de neconceput a lumii în care tr?im.

Two days after I killed myself I found a job here at some pizza joint.

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

Compassion is just a way to work with a big mess, because compassion flourishes when you feel inclusive of reality, and as long as people exist, reality will be a big mess.

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.