"Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic."

-- Jan Karon

#Toxic Quotes #Deadline Quotes #Publishing Quotes

“I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.”

Source : "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.
“You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.”
“Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.”
“There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.”
“Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.”

Source : Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”
“Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.”
“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.”
“(God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.”

Source : "Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi in Favor of Suicide Operations". MEMRI TV, April 2004.

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