"It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!"

-- Terry Goodkind

#Character Quotes #Sound Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.”
“We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.”
“Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.”
“. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.”

Source : Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.44, Harper Collins
“some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.”

Source : Marjorie Holmes (1985). “I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God”, Doubleday Books
“Home is where you hang your architect.”
“I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.”
“I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.”

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