Great Speech famous quotes

Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence. International Solidarity Movement activists are attempting to confront the exploitation of power and to bring back hope to the powerless.

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, What if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.