Dru Pagliassotti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.
-- Dru Pagliassotti

#Real #Heart #Steampunk
Huh? Oh you have a hidden agenda, do you?" She laughed. His straight-faced humor always surprised her. "You promised me you didn't." "There is nothing hidden about it," he replied. My objective is obvious. I've decided I'd rather have you describe me as 'sweet' than a 'slagging pain in the tailset.'" "Really?" "Well..." he looked up from the bag. "Maybe not in public." "I might be able to confine myself to saying it in private, if you gave me a reason." Taya met his eyes, and he blushed.
-- Dru Pagliassotti

#Sweet #Pain #Eye
There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.
-- Dru Pagliassotti

#Thinking #Past #Men

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.

Dru Pagliassotti famous quotes

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