"I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own."

-- Ally Carter

#Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes #Oklahoma Quotes

“Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.”
“In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.”
“Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”
“What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.”
“I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.”
“I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.”
“Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.”
“Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.”

Source : "Will Robots Inherit the Earth?". Scientific American, web.media.mit.edu. October 1994.

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