"I've always wanted an office job so I can tell someone, "I'm going to take a long lunch," or "I'm out of the office." I don't know why, but I've always seen so much stability in clocking in."

“The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.”

Source : John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

“Solutions are not the answer.”

“I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.”

“There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.”

“I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.”

Source : "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

“The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.”

“My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump...”

“Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.”

Source : Thomas Cooper (1812). “The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq: Professor of Chemistry at Carlisle College, Pennsylvania”, p.4