Quotes About Engagement

the only thing worse than losing is not playing

We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.

Some books you read, some you enjoy, but some books just swallow you up, heart and soul..

We both know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.

widened greedily, Meggie concluded they could only be discussing a book

I'd believe any story at all just so long as it's well told.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein

Un lettore non vede veramente i personaggi di una storia. Li sente.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we?

the problem with reading off a screen isn't resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it's that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.

Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

Talk to your neighbors. Make them promise to vote. Make them promise to take the country back from the torturers and thugs. The people who laughed at my friends as they lay fresh in their graves at the bottom of the harbor. Make them promise to talk to their neighbors. Most of us choose none of the above. It's not working. You have to choose — choose freedom.

the point of fake news isn't just to make it so that no one can tell what's true, it's to make it so that no one cares anymore, so that when you try to get all your friends to go out and march about something that they should already be thinking about, they're all like, 'Eh, is that even real?' Your enemies don't need people to disagree with you, they just need people not to care.

Even the bystander vegans couldn't ignore the racket.

There was a space in the conversation here where Salima would say something positive. Everyone in the room wanted her to say something positive. The conversation had a shape, or maybe a direction, and she could pat it on the back, give it a little push in that direction, and the next stop would be something glad from Paul or Wye or the white guy, and then back to her, push and push and push, until it had picked up enough velocity that no one could stop it.

Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for?

maybe fear is God's way of saying, Pay attention, this could be fun.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics.

I know some people here think we're trying to take over, but we just want to be a part of it. We want to have our stake. This is our home, too.

She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You're writing that down? Has the interview started?" Lee, whenever you're talking to a reporter, you're being interviewed.

When they left the bar, before parting ways in Port Authority, they stood on the corner of Forty-second Street and Seventh Avenue and continued talking; there were between them always an infinite number of subjects to be addressed and dissected, mulled over and mocked and revised.

A sense of humor is always a bonus. As with dinner companions, so it is with short stories.