"Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse."

-- Tillie Olsen

#Doe Quotes #Occasional Quotes #Strikes Quotes

“The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible to discern enough of the universe's underlying order to tap energy so powerful that it can destroy its discoverers or slowly poison them with its waste.”

Source : George Johnson (2010). “Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order”, p.326, Vintage
“Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?”
“In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.”
“Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.”
“What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.”
“The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.”
“Ask me. I'm a cow expert.”
“The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.”

You may also like:

Alice Walker
Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Novelist
Grace Paley
Writer
James Joyce
Novelist
Kate Chopin
Author
Meridel Le Sueur
Writer
Rebecca Harding Davis
Author
Walt Whitman
Poet
Lee Grant
Film actress