Roxanne Barbour's Blog, page 7
September 28, 2017
Quotation – September 28, 2017
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
Mike Adams
September 23, 2017
Quotation – September 23, 2017
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
September 20, 2017
Quotation – September 20, 2017
All musical people seem to be happy; it is to them the engrossing pursuit; almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.
Sydney Smith
September 13, 2017
Quotation – September 13, 2017
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Bertrand Russell
September 12, 2017
Quotation – September 12, 2017
“…it was his business to help them play. He could think of nothing better to do with his life, for he knew that when they felt free to play, their souls showed; who they were came out more clearly than at almost any other time. And the more one got used to letting one’s self show, unafraid, the more joy came walking into one’s life. And then the Self showed itself still more–and the cycle continued, joy engendering joy, endless. He leaned on the wall, warm with the thought of what his work was freeing those around him to be.”
p. 234 THE WOUNDED SKY by Diane Duane (A Star Trek novel).
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Ken Tufts / Barbara Copp
September 11, 2017
Quotation – September 11, 2017
You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, “Your style just isn’t right because you don’t use the really flower languages that romances have.” My romances –compared to what’s out there–are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that’s one of the reasons they’re selling.
Jude Deveraux
September 10, 2017
Quotation – September 10, 2017
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
September 6, 2017
Quotation – September 6, 2017
In private correspondence the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler once confessed that even if he didn’t write anything, he made sure he sat down at his desk every single day and concentrated. I understand the purpose behind his doing this. This is the way Chandler gave himself the physical stamina professional writer needs, quietly strengthening his willpower. This sort of daily training was indispensable to him.
Haruki Murakami
September 5, 2017
Quotation – September 5, 2017
You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject, the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.
Mark Twain
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Another Rhododendron
