"Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all."

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Source : "A simple, mildly incredulous philippic". nielsenhayden.com. April 7, 2010.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.”

Source : Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media
“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”
“Itâ€™s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.”
“What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.”
“The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.”

Source : "Gaming academic Jesse Schell expounds on chocofication and motivating players to play and pay (interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. February 10, 2013.
“Coffee or orange juice?â€ â€œWater is fine.â€ His eyebrows went up. â€œUh-oh,â€ Auriele said, but she was smiling. Darryl was not. â€œAre you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?”
“If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 27, 2014

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