"A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown ... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places."

-- Isabelle Eberhardt

#Travel Quotes #White Quotes #Uncharted Quotes

“We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.”
“The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.”
“Michael Koryta isnâ€™t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. Heâ€™s simply one of todayâ€™s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.”
“Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.”
“Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.”
“The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.”
“As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.”
“It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.”

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