Quotes About Opportunity

Seize the moment . Act now.

What does writing let you do that you couldn't do otherwise?" I answered, quickly, that it let me live the life I loved and to do odd things—falconry, travel, animal keeping. And, I added, "sometimes get paid for them.

What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Time and tide wait for no man.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

Life turns on a dime.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Youth is a wonderful thing," said Mr. Harrigan. "What a shame it's wasted on children.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind that the only way to make them into lemonade was to squeeze the hell out of them.

Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains—because they're there.

It always comes down to two choices; Get busy living, or get busy dying.

even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.

Strap it on whenever it's possible.

Because in America, you could have anything you wanted, just as long as you could pay for it. If you couldn't pay, or refused to pay, you would remain needful for ever.

Later on in life, you might wish that the good things which all befall in your one special year had spread themselves out a little more.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

Remember, my talented friend, there are Michelangelos begging everywhere in the streets of Rome...