#Life Quotes #Mad Quotes #Secret Quotes
“Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).”
“The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.”
“Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.”
“My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.”
“It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.”
“Email is the greatest thing.”
“As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason why I guess as women we should really work for peace, because we know how painful wars can be to us and our daughters.”
“I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in”
Curt Siodmak Novelist
Earl Derr Biggers Novelist