"Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back."

-- Sue Grafton

#Writing Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Claims Quotes

“Is negative space the space you don't like, or the space that is not there? And if it's not there how can you tell?”
“I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.”
“Ordinary people have extraordinary love.”

Source : Song: Ordinary People
“Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.”
“I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.”
“It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.”
“I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy.”
“We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.”

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