Roxanne Barbour's Blog, page 21
February 6, 2013
Quotation – February 6, 2013
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
Neil Gaiman
February 3, 2013
Quotation – February 3, 2013
When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. Where he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke ”Profiles of the Future”
February 1, 2013
Quotation – February 1, 2013
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain
January 30, 2013
Quotation – January 30, 2013
Prophecy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark Twain
January 29, 2013
Quotation – January 29, 2013
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes’ bath and Newton’s apple, the (3.6 million year old) fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
John Reader, ‘Missing Links: the Hunt for Earliest Man’
January 28, 2013
Quotation – January 28, 2013
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Mark Twain
January 24, 2013
Quotation – January 24, 2013
What a writer has to do is write what hasn’t been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Ernest Hemingway
January 23, 2013
Quotation – January 23, 2013
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain
January 16, 2013
Quotation – January 16, 2013
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Mark Twain
January 15, 2013
Quotation – January 15, 2013
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for Heaven and Hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of them.
Mark Twain
