"When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary."

-- David Gerrold

#War Quotes #Writing Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.”

Source : "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.
“I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.”

Source : "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 5, 2016.
“His [Donald Trump] name is on everything. He is a celebrity. But he is not a governor. He has never run government. He is a business executive.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.”
“Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.”
“There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.”
“The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.”
“There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.”

Source : Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.162, Multnomah

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